| In the Deep Heart's Core Contributor(s): Johnston, Michael (Author), Coles, Robert (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0802140246 ISBN-13: 9780802140241 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2003 Annotation: The uplifting story of a Teach for America volunteer in the rural Mississippi Delta has been praised by Robert Coles as "a compelling and important moral witness to education efforts today." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Policy & Reform - Education | Special Education - Behavioral, Emotional & Social Disabilities - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.5" W x 8.22" (0.65 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the Deep Heart's Core is the uplifting story of young Teach for America volunteer who becomes an English teacher in a desperately impoverished African-American high school in the rural Mississippi Delta beset by gang violence, drug abuse, ruptured families and teen pregnancy-but among the sorrow and struggle he finds dignity and hope, and works to bring the nascent intellectual curiosity of his students to full flower. |