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Teach for America Answers Obama's Education Call
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsPresident Barack Obama's recent State of the Union address called for more young people to join the effort to close the vast achievement gap that exists in the United States. It turns out that Wendy Kopp, CEO and founder of Teach for America, had been ready for the president's call for 20 years. For two decades, Teach for America has been recruiting elite college graduates to work as teachers in low-income communities that face educational challenges. Stephen Lovekin, Getty Images Teach for America CEO Wendy Kopp, seen here in 2008, says, "We need transformational change" in ...
Endangered: That Off-to-College Feeling
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThere's a chill in the air, and I'm reminded of an experience I never really had. Like nearly every woman my age, I saw the 1970 film "Love Story," set in a place that, compared to my blue-collar suburb in Dallas, looked magical. Houses had two stories, a street ends at an ocean, leaves turned crimson, and snow covered everything. Plus, you could fall in love with a handsome man with a Roman numeral name. Oliver Barrett IV was Old Money. In my neighborhood, there was no Old Money. Or New Money either, for that matter. The 1969 movie "The Sterile Cuckoo," filmed at Hamilton College in New ...
Florida Coach Changes Mind About Resignation
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 27) -- A day after Urban Meyer shocked the college football world by saying he would resign as head coach at Florida, reports say Meyer has changed his mind. ...
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