Taught by America
Subtitle: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: August 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780807032732
Subjects: Education In Urban Areas; Educational Systems; Education; Biography / Autobiography; Women; Educators; Personal Memoirs; Education / General; Philosophy & Social Aspects
First sentence: After I graduated from Yale in 1995 with a degree in literature, I joined Teach for America (TFA), an organization that places recent college graduates in underfunded, underresourced public schools where there are teacher shortages.