2 School Entrepreneurs Lead the Way on Change
| June 18, 2008 |  View for printing |
As the founder of Teach for America http://www.teachforamerica.org/ , a nonprofit program that recruits elite college graduates to teach in low-income schools, Wendy Kopp has presided over many triumphs, and the group’s annual dinner last month was another. It raised $5.5 million in one night and brought so many corporate executives to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York that stretch limousines jammed Park Avenue for blocks.
Watching discreetly from the ballroom floor was Ms. Kopp’s husband, Richard Barth. In the early years of Teach for America, he was one of her closest aides. Today he runs the Knowledge Is Power Program, or KIPP, a charter school network that has won praise for turning low-achieving poor children into solid students.
By SAM DILLON
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