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Teaching in the Terrordome : two years in West Baltimore with Teach for America / Heather Kirn Lanier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lanier, Heather Kirn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Urban--Maryland--Baltimore.
- Education, Urban.
- Education, Urban--United States--Case studies.
- High schools--United States.
- High schools.
- Urban schools--United States.
- Urban schools.
- Educational change.
- Education, Secondary--United States.
- Education, Secondary.
- African Americans--Education (Secondary).
- African Americans.
- Teachers--United States--Biography.
- Teachers.
- Baltimore (Md.)--Social conditions--21st century.
- Baltimore (Md.).
- Teach for America (Project).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Two years in West Baltimore with Teach for America
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, Mo. ; London : University of Missouri Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""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""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780826272867
- 082627286X
- OCLC:
- 868217547
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