110 Quotes by Wendy Kopp

Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs.

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.

I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

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

I think people are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact.

We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.

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

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.