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Stand for the Best
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 (Author)
9780470188965, Wiley
Hardback, published 8 August 2008
256 pages, Photos: 16 B&W, 0 Color
23.6 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.44 kg
"The lessons from Mr. Bloch's journey — on the importance of courage, risk-taking, passion and service in our lives — are valuable to us all as citizens, leaders, social-change agents and human beings." (The Washington Times, October 2008)
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.
Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1 Off the Block. 2 Back to School. 3 Into the Trenches. 4 On the Learning Curve. 5 A Question of Character. 6 A New Kind of Urban School. 7 Great Expectations. 8 Making the Grade. 9 Moving the School. 10 Real Heroes. 11 A Duty to Dream. 12 Th e Next Urban Teacher. 13 A Calling. 14 Midterm Exam. Epilogue. Appendix. Notes. Selected Web Sites. Index.
Subject Areas: Education [JN]
