One of my colleagues at the Denver site is working on this project. I thought some of you may have teachers who would be interested in submitting. Rick VanDeWeghe Denver Writing Project Creative non-fiction essays, 10-30 pages, on teaching low-income children in public schools. Teaching is broadly defined as classroom instruction, counseling, on-site administration, nursing, cafeteria work, coaching, etc. I want to hear from people engaged now, or people who have taught these children in the past, thus “No Child Left Behind” may be a theme in your argument or it may not be, or you may choose to compare teaching before and after the implementation of NCLB. People who no longer work in public schools are also welcome to submit essays. Comparisons of different kinds of schools, such as public v private, schools with mostly poor children v schools with mostly middle-class or wealthy children, as well as urban v rural or suburban, may also be appropriate. My primary criterion is good writing: prose that is lively, passionate, highly readable. I do not, at the moment, have a particular political agenda for the collection, but individual essays may lean toward pole mic. On the other hand, essays may be primarily descriptive and idiosyncratic. The book is intended for a general audience, so an academic framework is not acceptable. A few references to other published work is fine, but by no means necessary. I will try for as large a geographic distribution as possible. Please send queries to [log in to unmask] Four-page proposals or completed essays by May 1, 2005.