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Teach for America

nonprofit organization
Also known as: TFA
Written by
Chelsey Parrott-Sheffer
Chelsey Parrott-Sheffer was a research editor at Encyclopædia Britannica.
Chelsey Parrott-Sheffer
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Teach for America (TFA), nonprofit educational organization formed in 1990 to address underachievement in American public schools. Teach for America (TFA) was founded by Wendy Kopp, who first conceived of the idea in her senior thesis at Princeton University. With the goal of getting highly competent college graduates to make a two-year commitment to teach in struggling schools, Kopp raised $2.5 million in order to begin recruiting college students and professionals to become what TFA...

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