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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 60000 alumni and continues to place thousands of teachers across the country. PLUS in our postscript 'How You Built That' we check back with 19-year-old CEO Abby Kircher 

Teach For America: Wendy Kopp (2017)

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