Teach For America: Wendy Kopp

Episode 61 of the How I Built This with Guy Raz podcast, hosted by Guy Raz | Wondery, titled "Teach For America: Wendy Kopp" was published on October 9, 2017 and runs 43 minutes.

October 9, 2017 ·43m · How I Built This with Guy Raz

Summary

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 50,000 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 Santa led Chris Waters to create Constructed Adventures, elaborate scavenger hunts for all occasions. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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