Be Honest: And Other Advice from Students Across the Country. This item is unavailable.Be Honest: And Other Advice from Students Across the Country

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.

Nínive Calegari is the co-founder of 826 Valencia, and the former CEO of 826 National. She is a co-author (with Daniel Moulthrop and Dave Eggers) of Teachers Have It Easy. She lives in San Francisco.

Neko Case is an American singer-songwriter. Her album Middle Cyclone was released in March 2009. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.


826 National is a nonprofit tutoring, writing, and publishing organization with locations in Ann Arbor, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. It is the recipient of a 2010 Jim Henson Community Honor Award and a 2010 Innovations in Reading Prize from the National Book Foundation.