Wendy Kopp Schools Quotations

All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

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.

Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.

As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.

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.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.