Teach For America was once a movement. What happened?

Teach For America was once a movement. What happened?

Few organizations have shaped education reform as profoundly as Teach For America. This year, TFA marks its 35th anniversary, an improbable milestone for a program conceived in Wendy Kopp’s senior thesis at Princeton. It produced not only achievement gains among students taught by TFA corps members, but also an elite talent pipeline, as alumni went on to leadership roles across business, medicine, law, and other fields, while many remained in ed…