Teaching in the Terrordome [electronic resource] : two years in West Baltimore with Teach for America / Heather Kirn Lanier.
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TextPublication details: Columbia, Mo. ; London : University of Missouri Press, c2012.Description: 1 online resource (x, 237 p.)ISBN: - 082627286X (electronic bk.)
- 9780826272867 (electronic bk.)
- Two years in West Baltimore with Teach for America
- 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
- EDUCATION / Secondary
- 373.238
- LC5133.B35 L36 2012
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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 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.
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