Ep473 - Wendy Kopp | Teach for America
August 16, 2024
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Episode 473 · August 16, 2024
Ep473 - Wendy Kopp | Teach for America
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Ep473 - Wendy Kopp | Teach for America
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<p>Teach For America founder and CEO Wendy Kopp visits Google for a conversation with former Google vice president Sheryl Sandberg.</p> <p>From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In this Talk, she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding college graduates to teach for two years in the most under-resourced urban and rural public schools in America. The astonishing success of the program has proven it possible for children in low-income areas to attain the same level of academic achievement as children in more privileged areas and more privileged schools.</p> <p>Originally published in October 2006.</p> <p>Visit <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c04RK1vftRk">http://youtube.com/TalksAtGoogle/</a> to watch the video.</p>
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