by
Anya Bergman
| 09/23/2008
Wendy Kopp, founder and CEO of Teach for America, spoke of the potential of TFA, expounding on the lessons learned from her many encounters with TFA recruits, last Monday during the kickoff event of Citizenship Week.Kopp said that during her time at Princeton, she came up with the idea that students should be aggressively recruited to teach in low-performing communities and "channel [the TFA volunteers'] talent and energy" into classrooms for two-year periods.She said that the "dramatic gains" in students' proficiency levels made by particularly successful teachers drive everything the TFA staff does to improve their program and give it a sense of urgency.She spoke of the success of a fourth-grade teacher in the South Bronx and a tenth-grade teacher in Brooklyn who both pushed their students to perform at the proper grade level after finding that they were far behind in terms of grade-level proficiency.
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