Lessons from Teach for America Alumni: A Review of In the Deep Heart's Core, by Michael Johnston; Lessons to Learn: Voices from the Front Lines of Teach for America, by Molly Ness; Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton, by Sarah Sentilles

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