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Bush Books to Benefit Teach for America and The New Teacher Project
Ohanian Comment: I missed this gem when it appeared in USA Today but picked it up in an AP announcement of Jenna Bush's engagement. Teach for America and The New Teacher Project are an interesting combo for the Bush largesse.
Kati Haycock of Education Trust is chair of the board of the New Teacher Project. Here are the other members of the board:
Ms. Barbara Byrd-Bennett
Mr. Michael D. Casserly
Executive Director
Council of Great City Schools
Mr. Christopher Cross
Chairman
Cross & Joftus, LLC
Mr. Daniel Keating
Partner
Hogan & Hartson, LLP
Ms. Wendy Kopp
President
Teach For America
Dr. C. Kent McGuire
Dean of Education
Temple University
Mr. Frederick M. O’Such
President
The Partners of '63
Ms. Michelle Rhee
Chief Executive Officer and President
The New Teacher Project
Dr. Uri Treisman
Professor of Mathematics &
Executive Director, Charles A. Dana Center
The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Clayton Wilcox
Superintendent
Pinellas County Schools
Some board members are included in the list of clients offering testimonials. The list of people offering testimonials includes a den of rogues.
Interestingly, the Texas Education Agency is a client.
NOTE: Michelle Rhee, listed as chief executive officer, is the controversial new hire as chancellor of the Washington, D. C. schools. Rhee, 37, has never been a superintendent or chancellor and taught for just three years in Baltimore public schools more than a decade ago.
Here is the board for Teach for America.
Now, if you want more dope on either Teach for America or The New Teacher Project, check them out on 'search' on home page. Over the years, I've entered plenty.
Deb Riechmann, Associated Press
. . . [Jenna Bush] spent this summer teaching at the charter school and traveling to Africa with her mother, first lady Laura Bush. She and her mother, also a schoolteacher, are collaborating on a children's picture storybook to be published in spring 2008. Proceeds are to be donated to two education programs: Teach for America and The New Teacher Project. . . .
First lady, Jenna Bush to write children's book; half of proceeds to benefit TNTP
By Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today
August 9, 2007
First lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna Bush are writing a children's book about a boy who doesn't like to read. It is based on their experiences as teachers.
HarperCollins plans to announce today that it will publish the as-yet-untitled picture book next spring. It will be illustrated by Denise Brunkus, who's best known for her drawings in the popular Junie B. Jones series.
"It's a book that I've always wanted to write," Laura Bush said Wednesday in an interview. "And it's fun to be able to do it with your daughter."
She says the book is set in a school — somewhat like the Miss Nelson series by Harry Allard and James Marshall — and is about a funny, mischievous second-grader "who professes not to like books. He says he likes real things. Of course, what everyone who loves books knows is that even a fantastical character can become very real to a reader."
And that, she says, is something the boy learns with the help of his teacher. "It's loosely based on students we both had in our classrooms."
It's the first lady's first book. Jenna Bush, 25, has written an illustrated, non-fiction book aimed at teens, Ana's Story, about a 19-year-old single mother in Panama living with HIV. It's based on her experiences as a UNICEF intern in Central America and will be published by HarperCollins next month.
The first printing for each book will be 500,000 copies.
Laura Bush was a teacher and school librarian in Texas. Jenna Bush has taught at a public charter school in Washington, D.C.
Laura Bush says after Jenna's book tour this fall (she's appearing in schools and bookstores in 25 cities), she expects her daughter to return to teaching or go to graduate school.
HarperCollins says the Bushes will donate their net proceeds from the book to two national teacher programs: Teach for America and The New Teacher Project.
The publisher says it is donating an unspecified share of its profits and will give away $1 million worth of children's books to schools and libraries to coincide with the publication of the book.
Reminded that children's book editors often say every parent thinks he or she can write a children's book, Laura Bush chuckled.
"I know how difficult it can be. In a picture book, there are so few words, so each word has to be perfect. Jenna and I know that, and we know that each page should have something to make you want to turn the page. That's the challenge."
And does she have plans to write a memoir, as most recent first ladies have done?
"Not now; maybe after we go back home. But I think this book will be much more fun."
— Deb Riechmann, ,Associated Press; Bob Minzesheimer
Associated Press and USA Today
2007-08-16
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