Description
A SA TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD COLLEGE SENIOR in 1988, Wendy Kopp was a bona fide member of the "Me Generation." Yet she found herself searching for a chance to make a difference in the world, and she sensed that she was not alone.
Wendy was deeply concerned about what she saw as a grave injustice the inequality of educational opportunity in America. How could we allow children in low-income areas to perform so far below their true academic potential? How could we deprive them of an equal chance in life? It simply wasn't right.
From her dorm room at Princeton University, Wendy developed a plan to call upon the most talented members of her generation to teach for two years in the nation's neediest urban and rural public schools. She envisioned a new national service corps called Teach For America that would heighten our country's commitment to its most disadvantaged children.
Even before she graduated, she put the plan into action. It worked. Since the first group of 500 teachers entered classrooms in 1990, more than 5,000 Teach For America corps members have assumed teaching positions from South Central Los Angeles to the Mississippi Delta to Southeast DC. They have stimulated young minds across the nation. Many have already emerged as leaders in the fight for change. One Day, All Children... is the remarkable story of
ISBN:9781891620928
