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Ms. Moffett's First Year: Becoming a Teacher in America

by Abby Goodnough · 2004

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Through the compelling, sometimes heartbreaking story of one new teacher's experience in a Brooklyn elementary school classroom, a NEW YORK TIMES education reporter illuminates the complex dilemmas currently confounding American public education

Subject
education
Themes
teachers
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 272 pages

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