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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Autor principal: Lanier, Heather Kirn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Missouri Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Teach for America (Project)
Urban schools.
Teachers.
Social conditions
High schools.
Educational change.
Education, Urban.
Education, Secondary.
African Americans > Education (Secondary)
EDUCATION > Secondary.
Enseignement en milieu urbain > Maryland > Baltimore.
Enseignement en milieu urbain > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Écoles secondaires > États-Unis.
Écoles urbaines > États-Unis.
Enseignement > Reforme.
Enseignement secondaire > États-Unis.
Enseignants > États-Unis > Biographies.
Education, Urban > Maryland > Baltimore.
Education, Urban > United States > Case studies.
High schools > United States.
Urban schools > United States.
Education, Secondary > United States.
Teachers > United States > Biography.
United States.
Maryland > Baltimore.
Baltimore (Md.) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Biographies.
Case studies.
Biography
Electronic books.
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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