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" Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation. "

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" We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids. "

Wendy Kopp

Achievement

Teacher

Leadership

" In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement. "

" If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries. "

Wendy Kopp

Money

" It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent. "

" We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy. "

" We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education. "

" You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters. "

" As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades. "

" School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership. "

" There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case. "

" Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road. "

" I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession. "

" The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization. "

" I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities. "

" Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need. "

" The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success. "

" We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up. "

" All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children. "

" All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different. "

" Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities. "

" We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers. "

" We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic. "

" There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact. "

" Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status. "

" More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high needs classrooms. Because of their experience, they know that it is possible for low-income children to achieve on an absolute scale and understand what we need to do to allow them to fulfill their potential. "

" In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it. "

" Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools. "

" Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs. "

" Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs. "

" Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need. "