We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, t...
WENDY KOPP Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers impro...
WENDY KOPP More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high ne...
WENDY KOPP All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designe...
WENDY KOPP We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest a...
WENDY KOPP Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than...
WENDY KOPP The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters...
WENDY KOPP Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers...
WENDY KOPP We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence ...
WENDY KOPP Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education...
WENDY KOPP Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration statu...
WENDY KOPP Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary sc...
WENDY KOPP I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
WENDY KOPP People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some o...
WENDY KOPP Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that the...
WENDY KOPP There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconc...
WENDY KOPP We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools ne...
WENDY KOPP We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of...
WENDY KOPP People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
WENDY KOPP Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision tha...
WENDY KOPP All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
SHELDON KOPP In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
SHELDON KOPP You only get to keep what you give away.
SHELDON KOPP You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the bui...
WENDY KOPP Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and i...
WENDY KOPP I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a ...
WENDY KOPP We believe strongly in transparency and accountability, which is why Teach For America encourages ri...
WENDY KOPP Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have ...
WENDY KOPP On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic n...
WENDY KOPP Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't ha...
WENDY KOPP Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort....
WENDY KOPP Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been...
WENDY KOPP Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend...
WENDY KOPP It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from coll...
WENDY KOPP Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering th...
WENDY KOPP Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education ...
WENDY KOPP Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to ...
WENDY KOPP Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
WENDY KOPP In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not ...
WENDY KOPP The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he u...
SHELDON KOPP Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperi...
WENDY KOPP Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent gr...
WENDY KOPP Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in c...
WENDY KOPP Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, t...
WENDY KOPP Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fi...
WENDY KOPP Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all fou...
WENDY KOPP All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere...
WENDY KOPP We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful le...
WENDY KOPP Let the tech firms and consulting firms build your skills, but be sure to ask yourself, 'Am I ma...
WENDY KOPP The unlived life is not worth examining.
SHELDON KOPP All of the significant battles are waged within the self
SHELDON KOPP When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably n...
WENDY KOPP In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
SHELDON KOPP We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful....
WENDY KOPP Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technolo...
WENDY KOPP In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth purs...
WENDY KOPP When I started Teach For America as a college senior, I sensed that there were thousands of talented...
WENDY KOPP You still got to go out there and pretend it's zero-zero. I think the team needed this a little more...
DAVID KOPP Coming off the starts that I had, I wasn't where I needed to be. We needed this one.
DAVID KOPP I grew up here, so I know Bedford needs something like this.
DAVID KOPP We run around a lot with items, delivering them.
DAVID KOPP Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've ...
WENDY KOPP Certainly there are some time constraints and you see a lot of work crews working Saturdays to catch...
JENNIFER KOPP That's not to say we don't have some very high-quality Zinfandel vineyards with colorful histories a...
JENNIFER KOPP It's so remarkable to have a record year both in volume and price. But it's even more than that. It'...
JENNIFER KOPP It's a stunning achievement. It's exciting for North Coast growers to see these numbers because they...
JENNIFER KOPP There's no agreement in the industry on this. It's shocking to me that a public official would craft...
JENNIFER KOPP The storm was so intense and arrived so quickly that people were unprepared to protect their assets....
JENNIFER KOPP It's a mixed blessing. Some people just got a lot of soil and fertility and some people lost it.
JENNIFER KOPP One of the legends or wives tales of grapes is they (vines) thrive on stress. If you deprive them of...
JENNIFER KOPP They'll be doing a lot of interviews with city officials, businesses that have located there and eve...
MIKE KOPP There are no expectations for this group. It's not fair to ask this group to win a state championshi...
MIKE KOPP Because the truth is, while bulimia is a devastating illness I would wish upon no one, it has taught...
SHANNON KOPP And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to cha...
SHELDON B. KOPP Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
LOIS WYSE 'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do b...
LOIS WYSE I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I...
LOIS LOWRY Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,...
LOIS HOROWITZ If I knew what the photograph was going to look like, I wouldn't bother taking it. It's the ...
LOIS GREENFIELD I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and '...
LOIS LOWRY Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa...
LOIS LOWRY The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to ...
LOIS LOWRY I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
LOIS LOWRY He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
LOIS LOWRY Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overco...
GEORGE LOIS Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look f...
LOIS HOROWITZ Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overc...
GEORGE LOIS The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs
LOIS WYSE Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overc...
GEORGE LOIS My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to inc...
LOIS CAPPS The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic m...
LOIS CAPPS I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy e...
LOIS CAPPS What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable an...
LOIS CAPPS Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first l...
LOIS CAPPS My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore ...
LOIS GREENFIELD When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don...
LOIS LOWRY The ostensible subject of my photographs may be motion, but the subtext is time. A dancer's move...
LOIS GREENFIELD Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should be...
GEORGE LOIS People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.
LOIS LOWRY Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative direct...
GEORGE LOIS In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I enc...
LOIS LOWRY Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none
LOIS LOWRY ...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and b...
LOIS LOWRY The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe tha...
GEORGE LOIS I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and suck...
LOIS TILTON People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is d...
LOIS LOWRY We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, an...
LOIS CAPPS Whatever the creative industry, when you're confronted with the challenge of coming up with a Bi...
GEORGE LOIS I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designe...
GEORGE LOIS Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep...
GEORGE LOIS But there was nothing left to do but continue
LOIS LOWRY You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care abou...
GEORGE LOIS Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overc...
GEORGE LOIS Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where the...
LOIS LOWRY When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had aut...
LOIS LOWRY With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty o...
LOIS CAPPS In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.
LOIS CAPPS Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but th...
LOIS LOWRY Drug prices are much more than a casual concern for New Yorkers. As prices continue to increase, the...
LOIS ARONSTEIN High drug prices have created a barrier between people and the drugs they need to stay healthy. We n...
LOIS ARONSTEIN We think it has been a little bit of a slow and rough start, but people are beginning to read and se...
LOIS ARONSTEIN High drug costs are already forcing people to cut their pills, take less and sometimes not even be a...
LOIS ARONSTEIN HEAP is a great program, providing much needed assistance to thousands of New Yorkers every year. Ou...
LOIS ARONSTEIN Companies are beginning to realize there's money to be made in marketing to our age group.
LOIS ARONSTEIN When you get the card, it's a shock. People at age 50 don't feel ready to begin a new stage of life.
LOIS ARONSTEIN AARP commends the Governor and the State Legislature for taking this unprecedented step in helping t...
LOIS ARONSTEIN Making sure people know about options to the high-priced brand name drugs could mean a world a diffe...
LOIS ARONSTEIN When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Hu...
GEORGE LOIS - My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of el...
LOIS LOWRY His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, c...
LOIS LOWRY And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how w...
LOIS LOWRY It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
LOIS LOWRY He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes ...
LOIS LOWRY It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
LOIS LOWRY What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?
LOIS LOWRY He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to f...
LOIS LOWRY He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not n...
LOIS LOWRY I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought ther...
LOIS LOWRY You may lie.
LOIS LOWRY Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard ...
LOIS LOWRY If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide...
LOIS LOWRY ...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color...
LOIS LOWRY Things could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there m...
LOIS LOWRY Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.
LOIS LOWRY Gabe?"
The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.
"There could...
LOIS LOWRY I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in hast...
LOIS LOWRY Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which...
LOIS LOWRY They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he wa...
LOIS LOWRY The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pa...
LOIS LOWRY I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, re...
LOIS LOWRY Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
LOIS LOWRY It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?
LOIS LOWRY For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him...
LOIS LOWRY If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are f...
LOIS LOWRY We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.
LOIS LOWRY Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
LOIS WYSE a good friend is a connection to life- a tie to the past,a road to the future,the key to sanity in a...
LOIS WYSE The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied bei...
LOIS LOWRY I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great li...
LOIS LOWRY In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They bl...
GEORGE LOIS Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school...
LOIS CAPPS I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where...
LOIS LOWRY When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after a...
LOIS LOWRY I don't digitally manipulate my images, because I am interested in the spontaneous act of creati...
LOIS GREENFIELD Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own ...
LOIS CAPPS I'm sounding like an old fart talking about how bad advertising is today, but it's true. Adv...
GEORGE LOIS I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make ...
LOIS LOWRY We had a lawful election. We've had a certification of that election, and the only way that the Bush...
LOIS FRANKEL Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in v...
LOIS CAPPS The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas
LOIS WYSE For the friends life has given me,and for the life friends have given me.
LOIS WYSE When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you ...
GEORGE LOIS All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication cours...
GEORGE LOIS What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer but that the viewer knows, o...
LOIS GREENFIELD I talk to all the creative directors today, and they take me aside, and they say, 'You know, it ...
GEORGE LOIS These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or ...
GEORGE LOIS The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of streng...
LOIS WYSE A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity i...
LOIS WYSE Ask the American public if they want a wiretap and they'll say 'No.' If you ask them do they want a ...
LOIS FREEH In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.
LOIS LOWRY A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second.
GEORGE LOIS People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
LOIS LOWRY And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.
LOIS CAPPS What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. The...
LOIS LOWRY Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.
LOIS CAPPS The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, la...
LOIS LOWRY It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.
LOIS LOWRY This is a very significant threat to patients' rights in the United States. We need to protect the p...
LOIS UTTLEY Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
GEORGE LOIS It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him fro...
LOIS LOWRY He was bitten by the bead bug.
LOIS BONDY I would really like to know what the psyche is of a person who litters.
LOIS BROBST Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overco...
GEORGE LOIS I want my readers to be disturbed. I want them to ask, 'Could this really happen?' It is my ...
LOIS TILTON That means everything you can stuff in a brown grocery bag for $5. If you're a good packer, you coul...
LOIS SPENCE I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel'...
LOIS CAPPS If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he doe...
GEORGE LOIS My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye ...
LOIS GREENFIELD