“All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine …” — Wendy Kopp

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

Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

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

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