A Chance to Make History
AuthorWendy Kopp
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEducation
GenreNonfiction
Published2011 (PublicAffairs)

A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All is a book by Wendy Kopp, CEO and founder of Teach For America. It was published by PublicAffairs in January 2011.[1]

In A Chance to Make History, Kopp draws on examples of effective teachers, schools, and districts to demonstrate what she believes is needed to provide all children with a "transformational" education.[2][3]

A Chance to Make History is the second book by Wendy Kopp. Her first book, One Day, All Children, was published in 2003 by PublicAffairs.

Background

Kopp is the chair of the board and founder of Teach For America, the national teaching corps. Kopp came up with the idea for the organization in her 1989 undergraduate research thesis at Princeton University. She is also the CEO and co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent nonprofit organizations that apply the same model as Teach For America in other countries.

Recognition

A Chance to Make History was named a Washington Post bestselling book in April 2011.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Amazon (2011). "A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All". Retrieved 2011-03-27.
  2. ↑ good books about things that matter Archived May 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Public Affairs. Retrieved 04 August 2013
  3. ↑ National Board of Directors Archived 2013-09-07 at the Wayback Machine. Teach for America. Retrieved 04 August 2013
  4. ↑ "BOOK WORLD Bestsellers". The Washington Post. 2011-04-23.


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