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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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Author's Note; I. First Year ; One-The School Beside the Cemetery; Two-Teacher Boot Camp; Three-First Day; Four-The Plot of Marigolds; Five-When The State Walks In; Six-Barely Passing; Seven-Happy Hour; Eight-Do Over; Nine-Disarming the Alarm; II. Second Year ; Ten-The Revolving Principals; Eleven-Killing the Kitten; Twelve-Reading Powhitetrash; Thirteen-Northern Exposure; Fourteen-Elisabeth Shue Loves Us; Fifteen-One Hundred and Forty; Epilogue.

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