The Emergency Teacher: The Inspirational Story of a New Teacher in an Inner-City School
Christina Asquith presents a moving first-hand account of her year teaching in one of Philadelphia's worst schools. Told with striking humor and honesty, her story begins when the School District of Philadelphia, in desperate need of 1,500 new teachers, instituted a policy of hiring emergency certified instructors. Asquith, then a 25-year-old reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, joined their untrained ranks. More challenging than her classroom in the crime-infested neighborhood known as the Badlands are the trials she faced outside, including a corrupt principal, the politics that prevented a million-dollar grant from reaching her students…
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Weitere Autoren: Bowden, Mark (Solist) / Wong, Harry K. (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-60239-193-2
- EAN: 9781602391932
- Produktnummer: 3002443
- Verlag: Skyhorse Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 210 S.
- Masse: H23.2 cm x B16.6 cm x D2.2 cm 567 g
- Gewicht: 567
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Christina Asquith is a former reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and has written for The New York Times, The Economist, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She has a master's degree in Educational Philosophy from The London School of Economics and Politics. She lives in Washington, D.C. Her web site is christinareporting.com
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