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2009 Blackboard Awards:
What's an award without a party? Manhattan Media likes to honor schools, teachers and principals in person at an evening celebration that before his death in 2009, was hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winner Frank McCourt. You may know him as the author of Angela's Ashes, but he also penned Teacher Man, a memoir of his days as a New York City public school teacher, many of which were spent teaching English to Stuyvesant High School students.