In the Deep Heart's Core

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."

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Johnston, Michael Johnston
• Assisted by: Robert Coles (Foreword), Robert Coles (Foreword)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2003
• EAN: 9780802140241
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4024-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 209 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Mississippi, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Relating to African American people, CULTURAL HERITAGE / African American, Educational systems & structures, teaching;drug addiction;violence;education;students, Mississippi River Valley, Mississippi River Delta