Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.

We have had this massive effort on K-12 reform, raising standards, great teachers, great principals, turning around chronically failing schools, raising the bar, huge amount of progress. Let's continue that.

Far too many of our children today, our students, need remedial education. We have been lying to them. They're not really ready for college. That's not higher education's fault. That's our fault K-12.

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.