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Teach for America began in 1990 after founder Wendy Kopp proposed the idea in her senior thesis at Princeton University as a way to address educational inequality in the United States.

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Their company, Summit Series, has managed in less than three years to put together a handful of conferences that attract thousands of young, influential attendees and star panels of billionaires ( Ted Turner), philanthropists (Wendy Kopp) and disrupters ( Craig Newmark).

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Michael Hayden, former director of NSA and CIA, drew up a list of the most powerful defenders and offenders of national security and Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America, honored us with a list of seven powerful educators and so on.

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