Word: kopp
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...campaign it is, but an educational, not a political, one. This is the western headquarters of Teach for America, a radical attempt to woo promising graduates of the nation's top colleges into teaching. Whirlwind Wendy Kopp conceived the idea when she was an undergraduate at Princeton. She developed it in her senior thesis and, since her graduation in 1989, has pursued it with obsessive zeal, organizing recruiters at 100 campuses and raising $2 million in corporate and foundation gifts. The basic notion is that non-education majors, after a crash course of training, will serve two-year stints...
...Founder Kopp, for one, does not intend to make TFA her career, although she would like to see the organization become permanent. That appears unlikely without government support. Philanthropies rarely fund causes in perpetuity, and many of the current grants expire this year...
...Kopp does not seem worried. After all, she has already achieved what many thought impossible: the recruitment of some of the best college graduates to teach in some of the nation's neediest schools. Whether they live up to the high expectations set for them remains to be seen. But TFA seems to have , proved the enduring allure of teaching -- and of youthful altruism...