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Teaching in the Terrordome: Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach for America
Heather Kirn Lanier
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Description for Teaching in the Terrordome: Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach for America
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; JNKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Only 50 percent of kids growing up in poverty will earn a high school diploma. Just one in ten will graduate college. Compelled by these troubling statistics, 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 naïve Lanier devoted herself ... Read more
Only 50 percent of kids growing up in poverty will earn a high school diploma. Just one in ten will graduate college. Compelled by these troubling statistics, 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 naïve Lanier devoted herself ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826219862
SKU
V9780826219862
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About Heather Kirn Lanier
Heather Kirn Lanier is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Miami University in Hamilton, Ohio. She is the author of The Story You Tell Yourself.
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