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BL
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637757
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| Main Entry
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Lanier, Heather Kirn.
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| Title & Author
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Teaching in the Terrordome : : two years in West Baltimore with Teach for America /\ Heather Kirn Lanier.
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x, 237 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9780826219862
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: 0826219861
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| Abstract
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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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Teach for America (Project)
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Education, Urban-- Maryland-- Baltimore.
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Education, Urban-- United States, Case studies.
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High schools-- United States.
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Urban schools-- United States.
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Educational change.
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Education, Secondary-- United States.
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African Americans-- Education (Secondary)
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Teachers-- United States, Biography.
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Baltimore (Md.), Social conditions, 21st century.
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| Dewey Classification
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373.238
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| LC Classification
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LC5133.B35L36 2012
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| Parallel Title
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Two years in West Baltimore with Teach for America
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