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Listen To Yourself (with Vanita Gupta & Wendy Kopp)

Pod Save the People - December 01, 2020 08:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8.6K ratings
DeRay, De'Ara, Sam, and Kaya share their thankfulness affirmations for 2020. DeRay sits down with Vanita Gupta to discuss the Justice Department and the continuing fight to protect democracy. Then, Kaya chats with Wendy Kopp, the CEO and co-founder of Teach For All, regarding the long list of is...

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Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach for America: "I ... was just searching for something that would make a meaningful difference."

9 to 5ish with theSkimm - September 04, 2019 01:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Wendy Kopp founded Teach For America in 1989, which leveraged recent college grads against educational inequity in the US. Applying that same approach globally, she co-founded Teach For All in 2007. Wendy has been recognized as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People & was awarded the ...

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Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach for America: "I was going to work incredibly hard at whatever I did and was just searching for something that would make a meaningful difference."

9 to 5ish with theSkimm - September 04, 2019 01:00 - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Wendy Kopp founded Teach For America in 1989, which leveraged recent college grads against educational inequity in the US. Applying that same approach globally, she co-founded Teach For All in 2007. Wendy has been recognized as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People & was awarded the ...

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"I was going to work incredibly hard at whatever I did and was just searching for something that would make a meaningful difference." - Wendy Kopp on developing her big idea

9 to 5ish with theSkimm - September 04, 2019 01:00 - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Wendy Kopp founded Teach For America in 1989, which leveraged recent college grads against educational inequity in the US. Applying that same approach globally, she co-founded Teach For All in 2007. Wendy has been recognized as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People & was awarded the ...

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Teach For America: Wendy Kopp

How I Built This with Guy Raz - October 09, 2017 04:01 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 29.2K ratings
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, ...

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Teach For America: Wendy Kopp

How I Built This with Guy Raz - October 09, 2017 04:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 29.2K ratings
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...

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Wendy Kopp (Teach for America) - Social Entrepreneurship Changing Education

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders - January 12, 2011 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 701 ratings
Wendy Kopp, Teach For America's CEO and founder, is driven to end educational inequity across the nation. In this seminar, Kopp shares her entrepreneurial story of starting Teach For America straight out of college, and articulates the sense of urgency that she and her organization still...

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Wendy Kopp - Raising the Bar for Low-Income Students

Inside Social Innovation - October 27, 2008 06:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratings
Teach For America places thousands of energetic and committed college graduates as teachers in under-resourced schools for their first jobs. In this audio lecture recorded at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Wendy Kopp shares why and how she started Teach for America in 1980, and its pr...

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Wendy Kopp Commencement Address

Mount Holyoke College Podcast - February 29, 2008 18:27 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Teach for America founder and president Wendy Kopp spoke at Mount Holyoke's 170th commencement Sunday, May 27, 2007.

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Wendy Kopp - Narrowing Educational Gaps Across America

Inside Social Innovation - February 19, 2008 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratings
In an effort to narrow the gap in educational opportunities, Teach For America currently places over 5,000 teachers in low-income and poorly performing schools across the country. Its growing corps of alumni is also taking their educational experiences into careers in law, public health, policy ...