Blankstein, Alan M.

Award-winning author and educational leader, Alan Blankstein served for25 years as President of the HOPE Foundation, which he founded and whose honorary chair is Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. A former high-risk youth, Alan began his career in education as a music teacher. Heworked for Phi Delta Kappa, March of Dimes, and Solution Tree, which he founded in 1987 and directed for 12 years while launching Professional Learning Communities beginning in the late 1980s. He is the author of the best-selling bookFailure Is Not an Option(r): Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement in...