European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Teach for american peace corps for teachers not new teachers a they graduated from the teach for America program at Urcla last month. By Susan Chira new York times it was at yet another conference bemoaning the state of american education that 21 year old Wendy Kopp bored and restless decided that one solution was right in front of her. The answer was a peace corps for teachers drawing on the very people who sat near her a Bright driven and idealistic students from the nation s leading colleges. Wendy Kopp a student at Princeton University does not believe in wasting time. In Little More than a year she turned her brainstorm into a senior thesis distilled that thesis into a proposal persuaded major corporations to donate More than $1 million recruited students and talked schools into hiring them. Now her teachers corps called teach for America is off and running. After a rigorous Competition 500 recent College graduates won places out of a Field of 2,500 applicants proving Koppus theory that making the corps selective would enhance its Appeal to College students. They Are now teaching at six Rural or inner City Public school systems in different parts of the country. They have signed on for two years in Exchange they can defer the repayments on their Federal College Loans. No one knows How the teach for America corps will fare once the Young teachers pit their idealism against the realities of America s Public schools. But Kopp is untroubled by the Prospect of failure. Quot luckily i done to worry All that much Quot she said. Quot i really have this attitude that things will All work out. All those Little obstacles that people think will Stop everything a you can get around  that self Confidence combined with a Cool pragmatism enabled Kopp to confound sceptics and create teach for America so quickly. Quot she wandered in one Day and announced she was going to organize a teachers corps would do it in a year and raise several million dollars Quot said Marvin Bressler chairman of Princeton s sociology department who was Kopp s thesis adviser. Quot i said listen kid this is obviously deranged but she has a kind of really compelling gentle  Kopp also has a shrewd understanding of How to present herself and her ideas to business and education leaders. In teach for America s cluttered offices on the 33rd floor of the Mcgraw Hill building in new York City hand scribbled posters cover the Walls and much of the Youthful staff favors jeans or casual skirts. Kopp 23, wears a corporate looking Blouse strand of pearls skirt and pumps. Equally professional was the Booklet she Drew up to promote teach for America for corporations. In Clear prose using Short paragraphs and plenty of boldface headings Kopp outlined her ideas. Right after she finished her senior thesis last Spring Kopp sent her Booklet to 30 chief executives of America s leading corporations. One landed on the desk of Rex Adams who As vice president of administration at Mobil corp., also oversees the Mobil foundation. A we see hundreds of these things a month Quot Adams  it was rather Well written i took the trouble to read it. It was rather persuasively done and very Concrete. Here was a Young person a Good idea a focus on specifics and a More substantive package than one usually sees. I thought a in t this Sweet she probably could be helped if a Nice gentleman of my age could explain to her she s about to enter a Piranha tank Quot but like Bressler before him Adams found Kopp already had answers to the problems he wanted to warn her about. She left his office with his request for a budget outline and not Long afterwards Mobil gave her the seed Money she needed to Start setting up teach for America. Not Many people just out of College would know How to reach out to businesses present a proposal clearly or understand the Steps necessary to make it a reality. But Kopp had four years of training at Princeton through her work with the foundation for student communication a Princeton student organization that builds links with business executives publishes one of the largest student run magazines in the country and holds an annual conference Between students and business leaders. When Kopp joined the student organization in her freshman year it had a budget of $300,000. By her senior year when she was president she was managing a $1.5 million budget and had met dozens of chief executives around the country. Quot everything i do is based on that experience Quot she said. Quot it taught me a lot about How to Strat Gize and How to manage people. 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