We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.

In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.

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