Guest Editorial: Discovering life

by: Rick Lydon

In this editorial piece, the author shares how he spent over 20 years as a corporate manager for a financial printing firm. He further explains how bringing a company public or coordinating a corporate merger were difficult tasks, but they were child’s play compared to the challenge of teaching science to the seriously at-risk middle school students at the alternative school where he first held his position. As a trade-off—he “discovered life” in his first year of teaching.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 2/1/2010Stock # ss10_033_06_6Volume 033Issue 06

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