Charles Best

We make friends with people we admire, including those you might consider competitors, like charity: water, Kiva, and Global Giving. We get on a call with them and exchange ideas.

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

Laptops are important, but before you spend a million dollars per school providing one laptop per child... won't you please spend $5,000 per school equipping every classroom with a document camera?

We think there's nothing like sunlight to mobilize and energize citizens to demand change of their elected officials.

Whenever there are changes to school budgets, we know teachers feel it first.

We want to use our site to galvanize people to give but also to take important steps toward real change.

I founded DonorsChoose.org because I care about learning, and I believe every student in our country deserves a great education.

If we can show the world that there are students in all sorts of communities who don't have the material they need for a great education, that will be the first major step to doing something about it.

We think we can contribute something toward the improvement of public education in our country.

Access to sports is an important part of a well-rounded education, and it takes committed communities and companies like Dick's to make a real difference in kids' lives.

KIPP schools would be just a shining example of schools where students aren't just given homework and taught imaginative ways, but they're really brought into a culture of education.

I saw first-hand that all schools are not created equal, and the students shouldn't have to go without all of the materials that they need for a great education.