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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.

Thomas M. Bloch, former CEO of H&R Block and currently a middle school math teacher and president of the board at University Academy, has been involved in a variety of education initiatives since he changed careers. He and his wife, Mary, founded the Youth Service Alliance of Greater Kansas City to encourage and recognize outstanding community service through school-based programs. He is also a founding board member of the Kansas City Foundation for Higher Education, a trustee of the University of Missouri at Kansas City, President of the Endowment Fund for the Henry W. Bloch School of Business at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and chairman of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. He returned to H&R Block in 2000?as a member of the board of directors.

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Off the Block	p. 5
Back to School	p. 19
Into the Trenches	p. 27
On the Learning Curve	p. 39
A Question of Character	p. 49
A New Kind of Urban School	p. 59
Great Expectations	p. 79
Making the Grade	p. 91
Moving the School	p. 105
Real Heroes	p. 115
A Duty to Dream	p. 127
The Next Urban Teacher	p. 157
A Calling	p. 167
Midterm Exam	p. 173
Epilogue	p. 183
Appendix	p. 190
Notes	p. 195
Selected Web Sites	p. 203
Index	p. 211
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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

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

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