about Teach for America

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach_For_America

The organization was founded by Wendy Kopp after she developed the idea to help eliminate educational inequality in the United States for her senior thesis at Princeton University in 1989. Members of the founding team include value investor Whitney Tilson, U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Douglas Shulman and KIPP President and CEO Richard Barth. Since its beginning in 1990, more than 20,000 corps members have completed their commitment to Teach For America.^[1] The first ten years of the organization is chronicled in Kopp's book "One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way" . In January 2011, Wendy Kopp released her second book, "A Chance To Make History", which outlines what she has learned over the last 20 years working in American education.^[2]