{"id":157,"date":"2011-06-14T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/good-luck-andre\/"},"modified":"2013-08-05T12:49:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T12:49:01","slug":"good-luck-andre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Good luck, Andre!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-YYVZff9GHCo\/Tfa-UsNZo2I\/AAAAAAAAATw\/4UmRXcjcEpM\/s1600\/AndreAgassi.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-YYVZff9GHCo\/Tfa-UsNZo2I\/AAAAAAAAATw\/4UmRXcjcEpM\/s320\/AndreAgassi.bmp\" width=\"320\" height=\"315\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/--Otl6aiKIKA\/TfbBdui9KcI\/AAAAAAAAAT4\/yCwAxxEEuJM\/s1600\/AndreSchool.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/--Otl6aiKIKA\/TfbBdui9KcI\/AAAAAAAAAT4\/yCwAxxEEuJM\/s320\/AndreSchool.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy<br \/>\n\u00a0(Gallery photo).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span>I<\/span> read over the weekend that tennis great-turned-education evangelist Andre Agassi has committed to finance the construction of as many as 75 charter schools in urban US cities in the next several years through a new real-estate fund he\u2019s established with Canyon Capital Realty Advisors. He hopes to replicate the success of the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, which he established in Las Vegas in 2001.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>My husband and I, who met at a tennis round robin in Atlanta and got engaged at the US Open, are long-time Agassi fans:<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>We read his autobiography, <em>Open<\/em>, and found it incredibly heartfelt (more on that later).<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>We both\u00a0are professionally involved in education (my husband is a math teacher; I&#8217;m\u00a0writer\u00a0for both college and non-profit educational clients).<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>We&#8217;re also parents,\u00a0concerned about the state of education in a country where the public school system continues to struggle.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>If Andre\u2019s dream becomes reality, then that will raise the bar on education and give parents, especially those with limited economic choices,\u00a0more options.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>During the French Open earlier this month, Agassi talked about his post-tennis career with Christopher Clarey, chief sports correspondent for the <em>International Herald Tribune<\/em>. He said in part, \u201cI don\u2019t know if tennis turned me into this or I was good at tennis because this is hard-wired, but I don\u2019t revel in things very long. It\u2019s always about tomorrow. It\u2019s always about the next step. I\u2019ve had so many moments. I mean my book was a proud moment for me, even the two weeks before people got to read it and they heard about it.&#8221; (read the entire\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em> interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/10\/sports\/tennis\/10iht-TENNIS10.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ref=andreagassi\">here<\/a>).<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Later this week\u00a0<em>The Writing Well<\/em> will\u00a0pay tribute to\u00a0Andre as a storyteller, with a\u00a0closer look at his\u00a02009 <em>New York Times\u2019<\/em> bestselling book, <em>Open,<\/em> which he wrote with J.R. Moehringer, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist,\u00a0and which was named one of\u00a0the best books of the year by <em>Forbes, San Francisco Chronicle, <\/em>and <em>The Washington Post.<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy \u00a0(Gallery photo). \u00a0 I read over the weekend that tennis great-turned-education evangelist Andre Agassi has committed to finance the construction of as many<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395],"tags":[522,528,526,527,525],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-andre-agassi","tag-andre-agassi-college-preparatory-academy","tag-education-advocates","tag-education-reform","tag-state-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}