By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
One thing was apparent to Dennis Littky after 23 years as a middle and high school principal: The system focused more on test scores than on learning. In 1996, he co-founded the Met Center High School in Providence, Rhode Island, a school designed to meet the personal...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When she retired after more than three decades in the Ohio public school system, Florence Catledge returned to her hometown of Montgomery, Ala., where she rekindled a romance with her high school sweetheart, Joe, who was also an educator. As happy as that circumstance...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
John Foley could have retired in 1996 after 34 years of working with schools in Peru. Instead, the Jesuit priest, then 60, returned to the United States to launch the Cristo Rey Network, an innovative approach to Catholic college preparatory education that now serves...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Successful entrepreneur William J. Burwinkel started a company in his basement that grew into National Marketshare Group, a major consumer sales and marketing company based in Cincinnati. But that wasn’t enough. In 2003, he decided it was time to give something back....
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Christel DeHaan became a travel industry pioneer when she co-founded Resort Condominiums International, but after selling the company in 1996, she leveraged her entrepreneurial skills to join the fight against poverty. In 1998 she created Christel House International...
