Teach For America (TFA) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to "enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most...
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staff, teachers, and alumni. Teach For America founder Wendy Kopp and Teach First founder Brett Wigdortz co-founded Teach For All after fielding numerous...
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include United States Senator Ted Cruz and Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America. Four editors have gone on to be Rhodes scholars. In the early 1980s...
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Teach For America Counter-Narratives: Alumni Speak Up and Speak Out (ISBN 1433128764) is an edited book containing 20 counter-narratives about Teach For...
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professionals who agree to teach for two years in low-income communities throughout the United States as part of the Teach For America program. The organization...
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Wendy Kopp (category American nonprofit executives)
educational opportunity in their own countries and the Founder of Teach For America (TFA), a national teaching corps. Wendy Kopp attended Highland Park...
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Look up teach in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Teach may refer to: Blackbeard, English pirate Edward Teach (c. 1680–1718) nickname of Earl Caldwell...
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Blackbeard (redirect from Edward Teach)
Edward Teach (or Thatch; c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern...
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affiliate of the Teach For All network, which promotes the Teach For America model. As an educational non-profit programme, Teach For China's positive...
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Elisa Villanueva Beard (category 21st-century American women)
the CEO of Teach For America (TFA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for low-income students across America. Villanueva...
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Manchester schools. In 2007, Teach First collaborated with Teach for America to create Teach for All, a global network of independent social enterprises...
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A teach-in is similar to a general educational forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affairs. The main difference...
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James Foley (journalist) (redirect from A Message to America)
instructor for Teach For America. By spring 2008, in Iraq, he became an embedded journalist with an Indiana National Guard unit, writing a story for In These...
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Greg Penner (category 21st-century American businesspeople)
He is on the board of directors of Baidu, eHarmony, Hyatt Hotels, Teach for America, and co-chair of Charter School Growth Fund. On August 9, 2022, the...
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Peter Hermann (actor) (category 20th-century American male actors)
University. After college, he taught high school English through Teach For America. Hermann had brief stints on a variety of television shows that include...
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middle school in Glendale, Arizona through the Teach For America program. Together with its supporters, Teach For Armenia's founding team embarked on an ambitious...
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Marquette began partnering with Teach For America ("TFA"), preparing incoming teachers assigned to the Milwaukee area for certification. TFA members have...
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Stephen Mandel (hedge fund manager) (category 20th-century American businesspeople)
trustees and is currently chair of the national board of directors at Teach for America. He founded two charitable foundations: the Zoom Foundation and the...
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Teach First Deutschland is a German non-profit organization started in 2008 and adapted from Teach For America and Teach First. In an effort to help eliminate...
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American Journal of Physics is a monthly, peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American...
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Arthur Rock (category American billionaires)
children to attend K-8 private schools. He is also on the board of Teach for America and Children's Scholarship Fund and an active funder of KIPP Rock...
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University. After college, he worked as a middle school teacher with Teach For America, an AmeriCorps national service program. Jones spent four years with...
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Michelle Rhee (category Use American English from January 2019)
on education reform. She began her career by teaching as a Teach for America corps member for three years in an inner city school, then founded and ran...
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Daniel J. Porter (category American technology chief executives)
Zynga, he was the GM of Zynga New York for one year. He also served as the first president of Teach For America. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Porter...
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Andrew Yang (redirect from Andrew Yang (American politican))
14, 2020. Zimmerman, Eilene (July 28, 2011). "Venture for America: The 'Teach for America' for Entrepreneurs?". Inc. Archived from the original on March...
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Brett Wigdortz (category American nonprofit executives)
Deputy CEO and for 12 years a trustee of Teach For All, a global charity created with Wendy Kopp (who also founded Teach For America in 1989) to help...
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Education for teacher training. KIPP began in 1994 after co-founders Dave Levin and Mike Feinberg completed their two-year commitment to Teach For America. A...
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Organized by Champions for Education, Inc., the majority of the charitable proceeds from the tournament benefit Teach for America. In 2017, the tournament...
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One Day, All Children (category Articles with bare URLs for citations from September 2022)
Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way (ISBN 1586481797) is the first book by Wendy Kopp, CEO and Founder of Teach For America. It was...
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Linda Darling-Hammond (category 21st-century African-American academics)
shouldn't hire Teach For America teachers," said Darling-Hammond. "Our study says everyone benefits from preparation, including Teach For America teachers—that...
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