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" You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher. "
Dave Eggers
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Know
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" When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list. "
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" It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there. "
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" I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it. "
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" I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S. "
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Lying
" High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. "
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Teachers
High School
Reading
" The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out. "
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Weird
Beginning
" Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that. "
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" I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. "
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" And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students. "
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Every Day
Attention
Day
" I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper. "
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Science
High
Know
" I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. "
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Words
Way
" I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness. "
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Hope
Civility
Respect
" It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. "
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Taste
Inconsistent
Family
" And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students. "
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Home
People
Work
" I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. "
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Day
Impact
Government
" I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. "
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Book
Books
Owe
" Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction. "
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Book
Award
Vietnam
" I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. "
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Hopeful
Far
Got
" I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. "
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Sort
Chicago
Fan
" But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. "
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People
Like
Easy
" The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before. "
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Thoughts
Work
You
" To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. "
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Simple
Dollar
" The house is a factory. "
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House
Factory
" I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. "
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Book
Over
" But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia. "
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Going
" Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. "
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Naive
Right
Doing
" Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. "
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You
Feel
Lost
" To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way. "
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Begging
Me
Story
" You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time. "
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Compassion
Parents
Listening