Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley Presents: Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach for America & Author of "A Chance to Make History" April 21, 2011

On Teach For America’s 20th anniversary, its founder, Wendy Kopp, draws on the experiences of the organization’s 25,000 teachers and alumni who, driven by passionate belief in their students’ potential, have set out to accomplish what most think is impossible. Through engaging stories from the front-lines of the achievement gap in America, she offers a provocative exploration of what’s driving the unprecedented success in a growing number of low income communities’ classrooms, schools, and districts.

Kopp cuts through the noise of today’s debates to describe precisely what it will take to provide transformational education—education that changes the academic and life trajectories predicted by children’s socioeconomic backgrounds and America’s future.

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