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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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Lanier, Heather Kirn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Mo. ; London : University of Missouri Press, 2012
Subjects:
Teach for America (Project)
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.
Baltimore (Md.) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Biography
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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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 (x, 237 pages
ISBN:9780826272867
082627286X
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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