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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lanier, Heather Kirn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of Missouri Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 online resource (255 pages).
ISBN:9780826272867

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