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Author Lanier, Heather Kirn.

Title Teaching in the Terrordome : two years in West Baltimore with Teach for America / Heather Kirn Lanier.

Publication Info. Columbia, Mo. ; London : University of Missouri Press, [2012]
©2012

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  371.102 LANIER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  373.238 LA    Check Shelf
Description x, 237 pages : 23 cm
Contents The school beside the cemetery -- Teacher boot camp -- First day -- The plot of marigolds -- When the state walks in -- Barely passing -- Happy hour -- Do over -- Disarming the alarm -- The revolving principals -- Killing the kitten -- Reading powhitetrash -- Northern exposure -- Elisabeth Shue loves us -- One hundred and forty.
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.
Subject Education, Urban -- Maryland -- Baltimore.
Teach for America (Project)
Education, Urban -- United States -- Case studies.
High schools -- United States.
Urban schools -- United States.
Educational change.
Education, Secondary -- United States.
African Americans -- Education (Secondary)
Teachers -- United States -- Biography.
Baltimore (Md.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Added Title Two years in West Baltimore with Teach for America
ISBN 9780826219862
0826219861
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