Be Honest

An innovative publishing project from 826 National, the tutoring centre founded by bestselling author Dave Eggers, the co-founder Ninive Calegari co-author of the bestselling Teachers Have It Easy, presents a riveting book full of surprising insights from young people who have a lot to say to their teachers. Be Honest presents the first-person stories of senior school students from every ethnic and socio-economic group including an African American boy who talks about the social pressures that prevent him from asking his teacher for help.

Preface	p. xv
Foreword	p. xix
"Thanks for Teaching Me How to Steer": Letters to Educators	p. 1
"You Interrupted My Dinner"	p. 3
"Like a Chess Game"	p. 7
"Hmmmmm, Yeah, Life Is Good"	p. 10
"K.I.S.S. the Equation"	p. 13
"Your Smile Said It All"	p. 16
"My Boy"	p. 19
"The Self-Taught Student"	p. 21
"You Actually Care"	p. 23
"Change for the Better"	p. 27
"I Will Never Forget"	p. 29
"Algebra for the Afternoon"	p. 32
"Teaching Us About Ourselves"	p. 34
"What If?"	p. 38
"You Are One of Those Teachers"	p. 40
"Mixing It Up a Bit"	p. 43
"In My Memories and Calculator"	p. 46
"Dear Chemistry Teacher"	p. 48
"A Raffle Ticket Kind of Teacher"	p. 51
"If It Weren't for You"	p. 54
"They Matter, As Long As You Make Them Matter"	p. 57
"Building Confidence"	p. 59
"My Very Best Teacher"	p. 62
"Bobbing When I Should Have Weaved": Vignettes Inspired	p. 65
An Introduction	p. 67
"Indian Education"	p. 68
"The Torment Haunted Me for Some Time"	p. 76
"The Contrast"	p. 81
"Public Schools in San Francisco"	p. 85
"School Is for Learning"	p. 90
"A New Beginning"	p. 95
"Social Birthplace"	p. 98
"Transition"	p. 101
"Back to Basics"	p. 104
"Empty"	p. 107
"My First Teacher Crush"	p. 109
"High School in My Shoes"	p. 113
"Bars"	p. 117
"No Turning Back"	p. 120
"A New Stage"	p. 125
"The Beautiful Spotlight"	p. 128
"Rediscovering Me"	p. 130
"Dead Poets Society"	p. 133
Going for Broke": Essays inspired	p. 137
"Silence Is Not Always Golden"	p. 139
"We Have Already Gone Broke"	p. 142
"A Lesson for Teachers"	p. 146
"The Story of My Life"	p. 149
"Home Building Class"	p. 152
"Help Us Help Ourselves": Essays Explaining What Schools Would Look Like if These Students Ran Them	p. 155
"Buildings, Do-Nows, and Resources"	p. 157
"New School"	p. 160
"Garden"	p. 165
"Those Horrid Blackouts"	p. 168
"If I Ran the School..."	p. 171
"A Note from the Principal of Michelle Obama Senior High School"	p. 175
"Don't Sit"	p. 178
"Talking Back: Changing DCPS and Wilson Senior High School"	p. 181
"The New School"	p. 184
"Only DCPS" by Kirby Sikes, age 15, Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, Washington, D.C.	p. 186
"Teacher, You Don't Understand Me!"	p. 189
"Teachers, Our Last Salvation"	p. 192
"Raising the Standards"	p. 195
"Making Mistakes and Learning"	p. 197
"Does it Matter?"	p. 202
"Tomorrow's Leaders": Speeches in the Voices of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, President Barack Obama, or the Students Themselves	p. 207
"For All"	p. 209
"Our Children, Our Role"	p. 213
"The Concerns of Schools"	p. 216
"The Proper Tools to Prosper"	p. 219
"How It Feels to Be on That List"	p. 222
"Obama's Speech"	p. 228
Afterword: "I Didn't Know You Talked Like That"	p. 232
Some Suggestions for Making Classroom Publishing Projects Work	p. 235
About the Editors	p. 237
About 826 National	p. 238
Acknowledgments	p. 244
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