The book has appeared on the New York Times extended best-seller list and has been featured on CSPAN, and NPR's Marketplace. American Teacher American Teacher is a feature-length documentary created and produced by The Teacher Salary Project. Following the format of the book Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers, the film utilizes a large collection of teacher testimonies and contrasts the demands of the teaching profession alongside interviews with education experts and education reform news from around the country. The Governors' Challenge The Governors' Challenge began with the November mailing of American Teacher, along with a brochure about teachers, teachers' finances, and action steps for governors to take with their staff, to every U.S. governor, governors' spouse, and Chief State School Officer. Based on the premise that, as leaders of their states, governors have tremendous influence and ability to generate political will to prioritize important policies like teacher pay, the Governors' Challenge aims to showcase what each governor is doing (or not) to support improved teacher salaries with the goal of attracting and retaining great teachers for every student. The Teacher Salary Project developed an online interactive map to publish the latest and most innovative efforts to improve teacher pay throughout all fifty states in one comprehensive site, where governors will be applauded for their efforts to help elevate the prestige of teaching in their state and to attract talented individuals to the teaching profession. The site is intended to enable governors across the country to learn from one another and adopt similar strategies for elevating the teaching profession in their own states to be a financially attractive, prestigious, and sustainable profession. References External links Official website IMDb page for American Teacher TED Prize announces The Teacher Salary Project Interview with Nínive Calegari Interview with Daniel Moulthrop "Reading, Writing, Retailing" New York Times Op-Ed by The Teacher Salary Project (6/27/2005) Education Sector, April 2006 Excerpts from the book The GOOD 100 American Teacher Overview: A Plea for Respect & Evidence for Higher Pay American Teacher Video Clip "The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries" New York Times Op-Ed by Dave Eggers and Nínive Clements Calegari (4/30/2011) "A movie that tells a real story of American teachers" by Valerie Strauss. The Washington Post (6/1/2011) Interview with Nínive Calegari and Jonathan Dearman. NBC Class Action (11/1/2011) Educational organizations based in the United States Organizations based