Teaching in the Terrordome
Subtitle: Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach for America
Publisher: University of Missouri; Brand: University of Missouri
Published: Oct 29, 2012
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780826219862
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Teaching in the Terrordome: Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach for America