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

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.

The abolition of the separate school system in the south raises serious practical problems.... We face the abolition of the public school system. Boldness is essential but wisdom is indispensable.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

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

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

Michelle Obama has also done a lot of work in the scope of educational equity and being able to work with her on some of her initiatives has been awesome. I'm very honored.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

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.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

I am a longtime, rabid fan of Jonathan Kozol.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.