The right book at the right time: an impassioned defense of teachers and why our society needs them now more than ever.Former middle-school teacher and teachers" advocate Taylor Mali struck a chord with his passionate response to a man at a dinner party who asked him what kind of salary teachers make-a poetic rant that has been seen and forwarded millions of times on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.Based on the poem that inspired a movement, What Teachers Make is Mali"s sharp, funny, reflective, critical call to arms about the joys of teaching and why teachers are so vital to America today. It"s a book that will be treasured and shared by every teacher in America-and everyone who"s ever loved or learned from one.