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

"In the summer of 2000, Donna Moffett, a forty-five-year-old legal secretary, answered an ad for the New York City Teaching Fellows program, which sought to recruit "talented professionals" from other fields to teach in some of the city's worst schools. Seven weeks later she was in a first-grade classroom at P.S. 92 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, almost completely unprepared for what she was about to face"--Book jacket.