Steve Mariotti, Whose Trauma Led Him to Help Youths at Risk, Dies at 71

After he was mugged, he took a therapist’s advice to work with “difficult students at a difficult school.” They ignored him until the lessons turned to business. Steve Mariotti, a teacher in some of New York’s roughest schools who discovered that his bored, disrespectful students suddenly tuned in when he talked about running a business, […]