Taught by America A Story of Struggle and

After graduating from Yale, Sarah Sentilles joined Teach for America. But nothing in her limited life experience could have prepared her for what she learned when she started teaching in a rundown elementary school in Compton, California. Beautifully written, charged with love and indignation, Taught by America is a powerful tribute to the young lives Sentilles witnessed. Through moving portraits of inspiring children, she relates a heartbreaking journey, as she learns about a troubled school system, the true meaning of poverty in America, and the strength children exhibit when they're struggling just to survive. Book jacket.

SARAH SENTILLES earned her doctorate in theology and her master of divinity degree from Harvard and is the author of Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton. She lives in Camarillo, California.

INTRODUCTION: A CLASS PICTURE	xi
CHAPTER I WHAT I DID NOT KNOW	1	(26)
CHAPTER II IN MY CLASSROOM	27	(42)
CHAPTER III A DIFFERENT VIOLENCE	69	(36)
CHAPTER IV WHAT WE NEED	105	(28)
CHAPTER V A KIND OF BELONGING	133	(30)
CONCLUSION: TAUGHT BY AMERICA	163	(30)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	193	(3)
NOTES	196

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Taught by America A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton

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