Wendy Kopp Quotes

There are teachers' unions around the country realizing they want to improve standards of the profession, improve the quality of their profession, and ultimately attract the best and the brightest to their profession. The vast majority of teachers are dedicated and committed.

Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.

By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.

Good education is linked with good teachers. We need to think how we can have good teachers. India has the capability to produce & export as many teachers to the World as it needs. We need to think about how we can create an environment where children want to become good teachers.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.

President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.

Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible and yet we do not treat teachers as professionals.

I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical profession, to ensure our educators have the training and knowledge to succeed in their classrooms and in their careers.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.

If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.

I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.

We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.

The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

I'm committed to working with teachers.

More than half of my former students teach - elementary and high school, community college and university. I taught them to be passionate about literature and writing, and to attempt to translate that passion to their own students. They are rookie teachers, most likely to be laid off and not rehired, even though they are passionate.