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01844aam a2200373Ia 4500 001 A4752E7A5BBC11E29292E6C7DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130111010035 008 120427s2012 mou 000 0deng d 020 $a 0826219861 020 $a 9780826219862 040 $d SILO 043 $a n-us-md $a n-us-md 050 4 $a LC5133.B35 $b L36 2012 100 1 $a Lanier, Heather Kirn. 245 00 $a Teaching in the Terrordome : $b two years in West Baltimore with Teach for America / $c Heather Kirn Lanier. 246 30 $a Two years in West Baltimore with Teach for America. 260 $a Columbia, Mo. ; $b University of Missouri Press, $c c2012. 300 $a x, 237 p. : $c 23 cm. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Education, Urban $z Baltimore. $z Baltimore. 610 20 $a Teach for America (Project) 650 0 $a Education, Urban $v Case studies. 650 0 $a High schools. 650 0 $a Urban schools. 650 0 $a Educational change. 650 0 $a Education, Secondary. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Education (Secondary) 650 0 $a Teachers $v Biography. 651 0 $a Baltimore (Md.) $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826063204.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20130423010443.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A4752E7A5BBC11E29292E6C7DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search