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" The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization. "
Wendy Kopp
Culture
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" People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people. "
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" 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. "
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" The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success. "
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" 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. "
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" We're trying to be the top employer of recent grads in the country. Size gives us leverage to have a tangible impact on school systems. "
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" We believe strongly in transparency and accountability, which is why Teach For America encourages rigorous independent evaluations of our program. Our mission is too important to operate in any other way. "
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" Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning. "
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" It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter. "
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" When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life! "
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" Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools. "
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Great
More
" On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom. "
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" 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. "
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Make A Difference
History
Day
" Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road. "
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Road
Down
Truth
" Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression. "
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Conflict
Breeds
Where
" 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. "
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Children
Law
Opportunity
" We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers. "
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Teachers
Energy
Trying
" We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools necessary to meet the needs of a very diverse group of kids which exists in every class. "
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Teachers
Kids
Tools
" School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership. "
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School
Political
Higher
" Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite. "
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Gut
People
Some People
" Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless. "
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Vision
Crazy
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" We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change. "
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People
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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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Education
Energy
" Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it. "
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" 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. "
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Know
Experience
" I'm happy to admit that I'm a hopeless optimist. "
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" While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success. "
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Understanding
Diversity
Me
" Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students. "
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Dream
Education
Today
" 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. "
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Challenges
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" Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be. "
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