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_b.T433 2012
049 _aNTA
100 1 _aLanier, Heather Kirn.
_e1
245 1 0 _aTeaching in the Terrordome
_btwo years in West Baltimore with Teach for America /
_cHeather Kirn Lanier.
246 3 0 _aTwo years in West Baltimore with Teach for America
260 _aColumbia, Mo. ;
_aLondon :
_bUniversity of Missouri Press,
_c(c)2012.
300 _a1 online resource (x, 237 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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520 0 _aHeather 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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650 0 _aEducation, Urban
_zMaryland
_zBaltimore.
610 2 0 _aTeach for America (Project)
650 0 _aEducation, Urban
_zUnited States
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aHigh schools
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aUrban schools
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aEducational change.
650 0 _aEducation, Secondary
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xEducation (Secondary)
650 0 _aTeachers
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=502362&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell