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Genre/Form: | Case studies Études de cas |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Donna Foote |
ISBN: | 9780307265715 0307265714 |
OCLC Number: | 166317516 |
Description: | 338 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Lockdown -- The school and the movement -- You're in the Army now -- The men of Locke -- Locked in -- Dropping out -- What the hell am I doing? -- Disillusionment -- The corps -- Who do you screw? -- ¡Sí se puede! -- Rats on a ship -- The road show -- Significant gains -- The end. |
Responsibility: | Donna Foote. |
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Abstract:
A study of the controversial national educational movement, Teach For America, follows a year in the lives of four TFA recruits at a high school in South Central Los Angeles as they deal with the challenges and opportunities of a program designed to overcome the inequities in the American educational system.
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