{"id":1370,"date":"2013-03-18T13:21:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2014-04-04T23:41:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T03:41:08","slug":"tfas-kopp-rallies-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/2013\/03\/18\/tfas-kopp-rallies-grads\/","title":{"rendered":"TFA\u2019s Kopp Rallies Grads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy Kopp developed the idea for a national teacher corps as her senior thesis. Just a year later, her vision became Teach For America, an organization that trains recent college graduates to teach in some of the nation\u2019s most needy public schools.There\u2019s no how-to guide for how to change the world,\u201d Kopp said at BU\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/commencement\/explore-the-archives\/archives-2013\/\">140th Commencement<\/a>. \u201cWe are making progress today not because of a big idea, but because of a big commitment. Because we plunged in and embraced the journey of constant learning and improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy Kopp developed the idea for a national teacher corps as her senior thesis. Just a year later, her vision became Teach For America, an organization that trains recent college graduates to teach in some of the nation\u2019s most needy public schools.There\u2019s no how-to guide for how to change the world,\u201d Kopp said at BU\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}