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Students speak up about American education in this book from 826 National, the celebrated tutoring center founded by Dave Eggers and Nnive Calegari.
This unique volume collects personal essays, letters, and stories by dozens of high school students who were given the chance to speak their minds about their own education. From letters to their teachers to essays and vignettes inspired by the works of James Baldwin and Sherman Alexie, this collection of student writing contains startling insights for educators, parents, and anyone invested in our future.
Be Honest includes writing from students across the country, of every ethnic group and financial bracket: A girl from an immigrant family is put in an ESL class even though her English is fluent; an African American boy talks about the social pressures that prevent him from asking his teacher for help; and a privileged private school student describes his transition to public schooland reports that he was able to learn more with the increased freedom it brought.
The newest book from 826 National, the celebrated organization founded by Dave Eggers and Nnive Calegari, coauthors of the bestselling Teachers Have It Easyis a much-needed addition to the current national conversation about our schools.
826 helps young people learn that language can be play, that work can be joyful, and that they themselves can be the inventors and caretakers of their world. I have seen it with my own eyes. Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
This unique volume collects personal essays, letters, and stories by dozens of high school students who were given the chance to speak their minds about their own education. From letters to their teachers to essays and vignettes inspired by the works of James Baldwin and Sherman Alexie, this collection of student writing contains startling insights for educators, parents, and anyone invested in our future.
Be Honest includes writing from students across the country, of every ethnic group and financial bracket: A girl from an immigrant family is put in an ESL class even though her English is fluent; an African American boy talks about the social pressures that prevent him from asking his teacher for help; and a privileged private school student describes his transition to public schooland reports that he was able to learn more with the increased freedom it brought.
The newest book from 826 National, the celebrated organization founded by Dave Eggers and Nnive Calegari, coauthors of the bestselling Teachers Have It Easyis a much-needed addition to the current national conversation about our schools.
826 helps young people learn that language can be play, that work can be joyful, and that they themselves can be the inventors and caretakers of their world. I have seen it with my own eyes. Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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ALSO FROM 826 NATIONAL AND THE NEW PRESS
Teachers Have It Easy:
The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of Americas Teachers
by Daniel Moulthrop, Nnive Calegari, and Dave Eggers
The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of Americas Teachers
by Daniel Moulthrop, Nnive Calegari, and Dave Eggers
This book is dedicated to young
peoples honesty and determination
and to all the adults who have
the courage to listen.
peoples honesty and determination
and to all the adults who have
the courage to listen.
Preface
The students in this book have stuck their necks out. They have written honestly and courageously about their experiences in our classrooms all over the country. You will be moved by the tributes to teachers, entertained by the vignettes, and sometimes angered by the realities we ask our kids to face. When we talk about teaching and learning, we often divorce ourselves from the individual young people sitting in those seats. With this book, we hope to bring these individuals into the spotlight and to provide a microphone for their ideas and voices.
In the winter of 2002 I received a call from Kathleen Large, an English teacher at Leadership High School in San Francisco (where I had also taught). Kathleen had invited the entire eleventh-grade class to respond to James Baldwins 1963 essay Going for Broke. Leadership High was San Franciscos first charter school, and these students had a unique and powerful perspectivethey were at the forefront of a significant educational reform in our country. Schools, teaching, learning, and policy were concepts the students understood well, questioned deeply, and discussed fluently. The students responses encompassed everything from personal experiences to educational policies to teacher qualities that made them effective. Their essays were illuminating, and this was why Kathleen had called me. So, we decided to collect them into a book and publish the essays through 826 Valencia.
The next step was to bring 826 volunteers into the classrooms for several weeks. The tutors talked to the students about their work and gave them detailed feedback. The students, who had thought their work was finished, returned to their pieces and dedicated themselves to perfecting their words. All the students revised their work at least six more times to make sure the writing was honest, concise, insightful, and even inspiring. The essays then went to a student and tutor editorial board to edit, organize, and design the finished book.
Talking Back: What Students Know About Teaching was a huge success. The book was the first student-authored discussion of teaching and learning, and student teachers all over the country devoured it. We were thrilled by its popularity, and were still extremely proud of those students and that book826 Nationals first.
That project ended up laying the groundwork for all future 826 Young Author Books. We do this in all eight cities around the country where there are 826 chapters: A teacher generates a theme or idea for a book, and she tells us about her students. We then prepare dozens of volunteers and send them into her classroom to work one-on-one with the students for weeks, sometimes months. The students work harder than theyve worked for any school assignmentrevising and revising and revising. Students then volunteer to help shape and edit the book, learning every part of the editing and publishing process. We treat the students as professional authors and editors, providing honest feedback, rigorous standards, and appealing design. The books publication is always celebrated with a party, and students proudly read to a large audience and autograph their work. The experience of becoming a published author can be transformative.
For the book youre holding in your hands, we expanded the topics we invited the students to write about and allowed students to select from among them. In these essays the student contributors designed their own schools, thanked their very best teachers with detailed letters, and wrote speeches in the voice of President Obama.
The students articulate what we need to hear: they want to be understood; they need and demand excellent, passionate teachers; they have important, life-molding experiences they are dying to share; they want rich, meaningful curricula; and finally, they want to be acknowledged by adults in an honest waythey want to feel proud of who they are, and they need the adults to help create the right atmosphere to make that happen.
What Kathleen Large wrote for the introduction to the original Talking Back remains relevant today: It takes courage to ask young people to tell the truth; it takes humility to listen. The young people who wrote this book are good kidsreally goodand all kids are good kids. Listen, those of you who figure yourselves as responsible, and go for broke.
The authors of Be Honest have succeeded againtheir essays are insightful and heartfelt. You will enjoy them.
Nnive Calegari
Co-founder of 826 Valencia and 826 National
January 2011
Co-founder of 826 Valencia and 826 National
January 2011
Foreword: Pimp My Brain
Back when I was a kid, school was a mystery. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didnt. I always assumed that was totally my own fault, and I was under the impression that I wasnt too bright. I didnt know the difference between perceived intelligence and behavior. There was no evidence in my home life that made things any clearer, because I never saw my parents. I didnt understand why I was either ignored or in troublethere seemed to be no happy medium. Why were those teachers so crazy about some stupid schoolbook when I was reading three to five books at home? Why was my attendance such a big deal? I took all my tests! I now understand that the real problem was that my teachers were expected to fill in for my parents, by everyone, from the president on down, but they were cutting budgets like mad and everyone was underwater. It was so unfair! They expected the teachers to work magic. In my heart I knew I was hard on my teachers, and as I got older I was even a little bitter. Knowing what I know now I realize they all deserve something better than that. Im sad it was never brought to my attention that I needed to make an effort to understand them, too. Im sorry, teachers!
What I love about this book is that we are here to write our collective letters to teachers, be it gushing praise, bittersweet regret, or plain old disappointment. Its a complicated relationship! We are also here to ask what we can do for those same teachers. We are here to make suggestions and celebrate the shared victories that our teachers made possible. We are here to ask your forgiveness and thank you for your patience, and to tell you a little about ourselves.
In my schools (I attended no fewer than ten, which probably makes me an expert) I rarely formed a fondness for any one teacher, but luckily, in the world of the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were still books. Thank goodness for books: they dont grade you, give you detention, or send you to the school shrink. They are quiet, exciting, life-changing friends. They are, in a pinch, teachers. Most of the time you couldnt get in trouble for reading one, either.
I remember learning how to cry out of one side of my face while reading Where the Red Fern Grows in the brown corduroy beanbag chairs in the library. I faced the cold library windowI couldnt let other people see me cry. That beautiful story, and a trillion others, made me feel so much, and my capacity for humanness and compassion grew and grew. My capacity for love grew, too, right along with my passion for books.
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