In this video interview made during the World Innovation Forum, Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach For America, talks about lessons she's learned during the last 20 years of the program.

In this interview with Teach For America founder, Wendy Kopp explains why going into education beats working on Wall Street.

Changing a school's culture from one of dysfunction to high expectations can't be accomplished overnight, but this article credits 12 first-year Teach For America teachers for the marked improvement at Gilcrease Middle School.

This Augusta Chronicle article highlights a ceremony honoring 480 students who participated in BELL, a program that seeks to help elementary and middle school students plan and prepare for challenges in math and language arts classes, so they can do well in class and in life.

In this Newsweek piece Jonathan Alter suggests that companies with waning public images could regain credibility by giving large donations to high-impact nonprofits like Teach For America or Year Up.

This Examiner article highlights Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL) for providing innovative summer and after-school education programs that help failing students to achieve advanced levels in core academic skills.

This Boston Globe article details Fidelity Investments' plan to expand its Boston-based collaboration with Citizen Schools into the group's first national initiative.

A Citizen Schools volunteer teacher shares how teaching design to middle schoolers clarified her definition of the discipline.

This article looks at Teach For America's quest to understand what makes a great teacher, highlighting findings from 20 years worth of data and analysis.

Wendy Kopp and Jon Schnur are profiled in this Forbes article among 14 visionaries who are shaking up how we educate our most disadvantaged kids.

This piece explores how Teach For America, a New Profit past investment, built a mighty recruiting machine that corporations angle to partner with to recruit top talent who are committed to community service.