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...George W. Bush had a private breakfast in Los Angeles with members of Teach for America (TFA), the exemplary national-service program that sends recent college graduates to teach for two years in the poorest urban and rural school districts. "Everyone came out of that room glowing," said Wendy Kopp, the founder of TFA. "He really understood education and cared about what we did. He sounds like us, one of our teachers told...
...Kopp was optimistic that TFA, one of the flagship AmeriCorps programs, would have a future in a Bush Administration. Indeed, Kopp was invited to sit in the First Lady's box at Bush's first budget message to Congress in February 2001. At the same time, Teach for America was designated as one of five education and literacy programs that would receive special attention and support from Laura Bush. In 2002, the President in his State of the Union address called for increased national service and then illustrated what he meant by visiting a Teach for America school in Atlanta...
...Atlanta, several Bush aides approached Kopp and encouraged her to quadruple the size of the Teach for America infantry, from 1,000 to 4,000 per year. (Each TFA teacher serves for two years and receives $4,725 per year in college scholarship money.) Last January Teach for America received a $2 million "challenge grant" to facilitate the expansion. But about that same time Kopp began to hear that AmeriCorps' priorities had changed. Programs that encouraged voluntarism would be favored over so-called professional corps like Teach for America. She says she was assured by John Bridgeland, the Bush voluntarism...
...German company, Kopp Media, specially engineered portable rig for Buttner and his high definition (HD) camera. In order to accommodate the length of the shot, a French company developed a special hard drive with twice the capacity of traditional HD camera: 100 minutes of uncompressed images compared to a usual...
...despite normal, healthy dating lives, none of us are anywhere near to finding Mr. Right," wrote Heidi Reinholdt of New York City. "If we end up childless, it will not be because of our jobs but because we chose not to settle for Mr. Second Best." Chicagoan Rochelle Kopp agreed that "more attention needs to be paid to the role of men. Why do they fear successful women? Why are they afraid of commitment? Why, during their 20s and early 30s--the best time for their female peers to have babies--are so many men too immature to take...