Ed Boland has dedicated his entire professional life to nonprofit causes as a fundraiser and communications expert. He has worked for predominantly educational institutions but also for arts and social service organizations. Boland was an Admissions Officer at his alma mater, Fordham, and later at Yale, and lived in China as a Princeton in Asia Fellow. He is now a senior administrator at the nation's premier educational access program, which places gifted students of color at leading private schools. He lives in New York with his husband.
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In this insightfully honest and moving memoir about the realities of teaching in an inner-city school, Ed Boland 'smashes the dangerous myth of the hero-teacher [and] shows us how high the stakes are for our most vulnerable students' (Piper Kerman, author... SEE MORE