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-
(2010)

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[United States] : Wiley, 2010
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ISBN/ISSN
9780470639597 MWT18094238, 0470639598 18094238
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English
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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

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