Posts Tagged ‘mentor’

Frank McCourt, 1930-2009

Written by admin on July 22, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

Readers of this newspaper have come to know Frank McCourt in a different way over the past several years. As someone who thought there were too many unsung heroes in the classroom, McCourt was kind enough to play host to Manhattan Media’s annual Blackboard Awards, affairs honoring New York City’s top schools and teachers. Audiences
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A Frank Memoir

Written by admin on July 22, 2009. Posted in Editorial, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

“When I look back on our teaching days I wonder how we managed to survive at all. It was of course, a miserable career: the happy career is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable teaching career is the miserable high school teaching career, and worse yet is the miserable New York public
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