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An interview with Daniel Moulthrop,
Nínive Calegari,
and Dave Eggers
C-SPAN2
Live at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
New York City
The authors of Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers discuss their book and the plight of American public schools.
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Brian Lehrer Show
Producer Nínive Calegari interviews on the and about why teachers are important for future generations. |
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The GOOD 100 : The Teacher Salary Project
Fall 2009 Issue
“The Teacher Salary Project is a multipronged media and advocacy effort to remind a forgetful America how important, overworked, and underpaid our public-school teachers are...” |
The Teacher Salary Project
By Josh Marks
Variety blog post
August 6, 2008
“Academy Award–winning filmmaker Vanessa Roth (Freeheld) and Pulitzer Prize finalist author Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) are teaming up to take on teachers’ salaries in an upcoming feature-length documentary that promises to do for wage inequality in the educational system what Michael Moore did for our broken health care system in Sicko.”
Unsung Heroes
By Rafe Esquith
Washington Post review: Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers
June 26, 2008
“As a classroom teacher for almost a quarter-century, I have had the often frustrating experience of reading books and articles about education that I know do not even approach the truth...Now comes Teachers Have It Easy, a book that, I’m pleased to say, is full of truth. In a lively, well-organized format, authors Daniel Moulthrop, Nínive Clements Calegari and Dave Eggers have provided one of the most accurate descriptions of the world of teaching I have read in a long time.”
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The Teacher Salary Project
By Bill Ferriter (Teacher Leaders Network)
Blog entry on The Tempered Radical
August 2, 2008
“Over the past several years, one of the central issues that has driven my work has been helping to redefine how teachers are paid. Watching colleagues walk away from our profession dissatisfied with compensation models built on single salary schedules and growing tired of constantly searching for extra dollars to pad my income, I can’t think of a more urgent issue for educators to wrestle with.” |
New Interactive Project Aims to Document the Important Work of Teachers
American Federation of Teachers website (aft.org)
July 29, 2008
“Teachers have a chance to get involved early on in a unique project that will ultimately result in a documentary film highlighting the important work of educators in the classroom as well as the challenges they face every day.”
The Teacher Salary Project Has Launched
Blog entry on Tedprize.org, Dave Eggers’ wish blog
July 28, 2008
“On Friday, a press release went out announcing the launch of the website for The Teacher Salary Project. This website is an interactive forum to continue the conversation on teachers’ salaries that began with the book Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers, written by Daniel Moulthrop, Dave Eggers, and Nínive Calegari.”
It’s Official: A Documentary on the Professional Lives of Teachers
By Claus von Zastrow
Blog entry on Public School Insights
July 26, 2008
“Yesterday, Eggers, Roth, and Calegari sent out a press release announcing the launch of a new website, theteachersalaryproject.org, that they describe as ‘the first step in what will become a new kind of documentary film. Through your stories, your contributions, and your outreach efforts, we will change how the best teachers are valued in our society.’”
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The Teacher Salary Project Is Launched
826 Valencia – 826 News
July 25, 2008
“The documentary will tell the stories of the men and women who do the heavy lifting in education, the ones closest to our children—the 3.2 million teachers who spend every day in classrooms in every corner of the country. The film will follow three to five teachers at different stages in their careers, all of whom are struggling with the conditions in which they’re teaching.”
Documenting the Professional Lives of Teachers: Part III of Our Dave Eggers Interview
By Claus von Zastrow
Blog entry on Public School Insights
May 27, 2008
“In this third and final installment of our interview, Eggers announces his plans to create a new documentary depicting the professional lives of teachers.”
Pay teachers more, increase accountability, say ed "mavericks"
By Kelly Vaughan
GothamSchools Newsroom
“GOOD Magazine brought together three ‘mavericks’ of the education world for a panel discussion last night. Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach For America (TFA), and Nínive Calegari, CEO of literacy nonprofit 826 National and producer of a documentary film about teacher salary reform, took on the teacher-pay system.”
Reading, Writing, Retailing
By Dave Eggers, Nínive Calegari, and Daniel Moulthrop New York Times opinion piece June 27, 2005 “Most teachers love teaching, but teaching is often not so easy to love…Teachers’ salaries are well below what similarly educated professionals expect…Meanwhile, President Bush’s education law, known as No Child Left Behind, insists that by 2006 all teachers be ‘highly qualified.’ A laudable goal, clearly beyond debate. But while school districts must find increasingly qualified teachers, the legislation does not provide enough money to substantially increase teachers’ earning potential.”
Article by Leah Garchik from the San Francisco Chronicle
October 20, 2008 “The gang at 826 Valencia, led by co-founders Dave Eggers and Nínive Calegari, has turned its muscle to the insufficient salaries paid teachers. The goal is ‘to honor teachers and to demonstrate that they’re critical to the viability of our democracy’ by making a feature-length Studs Terkel–style documentary, directed by Vanessa Roth. The movie (already underway) will focus on the underappreciated plight of those who have dedicated their professional lives to serving the next generation.” |
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