One Day, All Children...: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way

From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In One Day, All Children... , she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding college graduates to teach for two years in the most under-resourced urban and rural public schools in America. The astonishing success of the program has proven it possible for children in low-income areas to attain the same level of academic achievement as children in more privileged areas and more privileged schools.

One Day, All Children... is not just a personal memoir. It's a blueprint for the new civil rights movement--a movement that demands educational access and opportunity for all American children.

Author: Wendy Kopp
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 04/03/2003
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781586481797
ISBN10: 1586481797
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Educators
- Education | Organizations & Institutions
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform

About the Author
Wendy Kopp is the founder and chairwoman of the board at Teach For America, the co-founder and chief executive of Teach For All, and the author of One Day, All Children. She lives in New York City.