Riccards, Patrick R.

Patrick Riccards is a nationally recognized strategist, writer, and public speaker on school improvement and education reform issues. A noted education agitator, he is the author of the award-winning Eduflack blog ("http: //blog.eduflack.com"). Named PR News' Public Affairs Professional of the Year in 2013 and Bulldog Reporter's Not-for-Profit Communicator of the Year in 2011, Riccards is a contributing author to "Why Kids Still Can't Read: Challenging the Status Quo in Education" and PR News' "Media Training Guidebook: Volume 2". He is also the author or editor of a dozen major education poli...