Teaching in the Terrordome : two years in West Baltimore with Teach for America /

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Heather Kirn Lanier joined Teach For America (TFA), a program that thrusts eager but inexperienced college graduates into America's most impoverished areas to teach, asking them to do whatever is necessary to catch their disadvantaged kids up to the rest of the nation. With little more than a f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lanier, Heather Kirn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, Mo. ; London : University of Missouri Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Teach for America (Project)
2000-2099
Teachers > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Education (Secondary)
Education, Secondary > United States.
Educational change.
Urban schools > United States.
High schools > United States.
Education, Urban > United States > Case studies.
Education, Urban > Maryland > Baltimore.
Enseignants > États-Unis > Biographies.
Enseignement secondaire > États-Unis.
Enseignement > Réforme.
Écoles urbaines > États-Unis.
Écoles secondaires > États-Unis.
Enseignement en milieu urbain > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Enseignement en milieu urbain > Maryland > Baltimore.
EDUCATION > Secondary.
Education, Secondary.
Education, Urban.
High schools.
Social conditions
Teachers.
Urban schools.
Baltimore (Md.) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Maryland > Baltimore.
United States.
Biography
Biographies.
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Heather Kirn Lanier joined Teach For America (TFA), a program that thrusts eager but inexperienced college graduates into America's most impoverished areas to teach, asking them to do whatever is necessary to catch their disadvantaged kids up to the rest of the nation. With little more than a five-week teacher boot camp and the knowledge that David Simon referred to her future school as "The Terrordome," the altruistic and naive Lanier devoted herself to attaining the program's goals but met obstacles on all fronts
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 237 pages
ISBN:9780826272867
082627286X

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