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Wendy Kopp

Wendy Kopp: Teach for America

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  • ABOUT Wendy Kopp

    Wendy Kopp proposed the foundations for Teach For America in her undergraduate senior thesis in 1989 and has spent the last twenty years working to sustain and build the organization. Kopp also serves as the chief executive of Teach For All, which is supporting the development of Teach For America’s model in other countries.  She is the author of One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way. Profile
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Ultimately, I believe our best hope is to reach the point where we have leaders at every level of our education system.       

Click play to listen. Recorded on November 5, 2008.

Convinced that many in her generation were striving to make a difference in the world, Wendy Kopp turned her undergraduate thesis at Princeton University into the national teaching corps Teach For America in 1989. Kopp surveys the first twenty years of Teach For America's existence while discussing the experiences chronicled in her book One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned along the Way (2003)

Generously sponsored by Mary P. Hines.

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