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Wendy Kopp

Founder of Teach For America; chief executive of Teach For All

United States · b. 1967

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American educator who proposed a national teaching corps in her Princeton undergraduate thesis and founded Teach For America in 1990. She later founded Teach For All, a network of independent organisations running comparable programmes in dozens of countries.

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Question Which book changed the way you think, and what did it change? Taste & recommendation read 24 other answers →

The Fountainhead , I think, pretty much saved me in the initial years of Teach For America. I loved that book, but I’m not sure books were the seminal thing that guided my path. ... I think it was sort of about “the creator against the world,” and I was probably feeling at that point that I was up against lots of boulders, to pull off the big idea of Teach For America.

Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 17 September 2013 source ↗

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