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Autore: | Bloch Thomas M |
Titolo: | Stand for the best [[electronic resource] ] : what I learned after leaving my job as CEO of H&R Block to become a teacher and founder of an inner-city charter school / / Thomas M. Bloch |
Pubblicazione: | San Francisco, CA, : Jossey-Bass, c2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina: | 371.10092 |
B | |
Soggetto topico: | Education, Urban - United States |
Mathematics teachers - Missouri - Kansas City | |
Charter schools - Missouri - Kansas City | |
Teaching - Social aspects - United States | |
Career changes | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-210) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Off the Block -- Back to school -- Into the trenches -- On the learning curve -- A question of character -- A new kind of urban school -- Great expectations -- Making the grade -- Moving the school -- Real heroes -- A duty to dream -- The next urban teacher -- A calling -- Midterm exam. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Thirteen years ago, Tom Bloch was CEO of H&R Block, the groundbreaking tax organization. The son of the company's founder, he was a happily married 41-year-old executive, but something was missing from his life. After a nineteen-year career at the company, Bloch resigned his position to become a math teacher in an impoverished inner-city section of Kansas City. Stand for the Best reveals Bloch's struggles to make a difference for his marginalized students and how he eventually co-founded a successful charter school, University Academy. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Stand for the best |
ISBN: | 0-470-63959-8 |
1-282-55118-3 | |
9786612551185 | |
0-470-63960-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459234603321 |
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