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Jul 2019
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Teach For America: Wendy Kopp (2017)

Guy Raz | Wondery
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In 1989, college senior Wendy Kopp was trying to figure out how to improve public education in the US. For her senior thesis, she proposed creating a national teaching corps that would recruit recent college grads to teach in needy schools. One year later, she launched the nonprofit, Teach for America. Today, TFA has close to 60,000 alumni and continues to p ... Show More
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