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In Praise of Unconventional Teaching: Frank McCourt

In  Praise of Uncoventional Teaching: Frank McCourt


September 12, 2006
Some 300 people, many of them teachers, gathered at the Kulturkirche in Cologne on September 12 to see and hear author Frank McCourt read from his acclaimed third book “Teacher Man.” McCourt, an American citizen with Irish roots, not only read from his memoir but also spoke animatedly about the challenges and rewards of his thirty-year teaching career in New York schools. The audience came away from the event inspired by the memories of a devoted teacher whose involvement with and responsibility to his students were truly moving


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