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Ron Clark

The Ron Clark Story

Blog entry posted January 27th, 2010 by Jeff Vohden

How important are passion, innovation, and creativity to being an effective teacher? To hear Ron Clark speak, as I did last week at the National Title I Conference in Washington, D.C., they are critical—and he has the results to prove it.

Ron’s story is fascinating. After graduating from college, he became a teacher in a rural disadvantaged North Carolina school where he used his own nontraditional innovative approach to teaching to make a tremendous impact on his students. Test scores soared. His real-world applications caught the eye of...

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