As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public to understand from individual classrooms, schools, and cities that this is an issue that can be solved.

Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

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

The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.