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In 1989 college senior Wendy Kopp was trying to figure out how to improve American public schools. For her senior thesis she proposed creating a national teaching corps that would recruit recent college grads to teach in underserved schools. One year later she launched the nonprofit Teach for America. Today TFA has 50000 alumni a budget of nearly $300 million and continues to place thousands of teachers across the country. PLUS in our postscript 'How You Built That' how a game of Secret

Teach For America: Wendy Kopp

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