All Posts Tagged: 'Wendy Kopp'


Finland Cont’d.

December 9th, 2008 | Category: Teacher Quality

As you’d expect, Finland’s child care policies are more generous than ours; Matt Yglesias explains more here and here. Meanwhile, on the teaching front, all K-12 teachers are required to go through rigorous university-based training, in most cases through a master’s degree. But only 10 – 12% of applicants to university teaching programs are accepted. [...]

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Don’t Be Hating

June 19th, 2008 | Category: Educational Choice

NYTimes education reporter Sam Dillon has a nice profile of Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp and KIPP CEO Richard Barth, who lead the nation’s two most successful and high-profile education entrepreneurial organization while also being married to one another.
Of course, no TFA article would be complete without the requisite disparaging quote from Stanford professor [...]

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What can TPS reports teach us about education?

June 21st, 2007 | Category: Educational Choice

At a Business Roundtable event today featuring rockstars Wendy Kopp, Mike Feinberg, Chris Barbic, Jon Schnur, and Tim Daly, I was most struck by a small caveat that Feinberg made when comparing his KIPP teachers’ schedules to those of average business workers. They both work 7:30-5:00 days, but the teachers are working with kids. There’s [...]

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Is Wendy Kopp Today’s Jane Addams?

May 8th, 2006 | Category: Accountability

After reading Christine Stansell’s New Republic review of it, I’m really eager to read Louise W. Knight’s Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy. While I certainly don’t agree with everything they did, I feel a particular debt to the early 20th century Progressive women reformers such as Addams, both for the positive social [...]

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