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A Mission to Make Social-Justice Groups More Effective

By Peter Panepento

As a fresh-faced graduate of Duke University, 21-year-old Jerry Hauser got a firsthand tutorial in inequality as one of 500 charter teachers in the Teach for America program. For two years during the early 1990s, he taught math and history to high-school students in Compton, Calif., one of the nation's poorest inner-city neighborhoods.

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