FOUNDER’S SYNDROME IN NON PROFITS My knees were shaking, my heart was beating much too fast and I was on the verge of tears. My meeting with a woman whom I respected and admired, the founding head of an extraordinary school where I would have been delighted to enroll my own children, was to begin [...]
Isn’t it amazing that a whole range of professional and business people, some in thier first year of employment, can earn more than the people who taught them how to read, write, compute and think?
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Everyone knows who Babe Ruth was. Millions watch the Jerry Rices of the world catch footballs and the Lance Armstrongs race through France. But how many people can name the winner of an award won by a teacher in their own community – if there is actually such an award? As a person who taught [...]