Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Underprepared

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Penguin Books, 1990 - Biography & Autobiography - 255 pages
Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient - these are the the stigmas that define America's educational underclass. As a child in a Los Angeles ghetto, Mike Rose shared these labels; today he works with educationally underprepared children and adults in order to give them a fair chance at learning. In "Lives on the Boundary, " Rose describes his innovative methods of awakening untapped potential and initiating "problem" students into the world of language, literature, and expression. Challenging educators, policymakers, and parents, to re-examine their assumptions about the capicity of students, Rose offers a truly democratic vision, one that should be heeded by anyone concerned with America's future.

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Our Schools and Our Children
1
I Just Wanna Be Average
11
Entering the Conversation
39
Copyright

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About the author (1990)

Mike Rose is a professor in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. He has taught in a wide range of educational settings, from elementary school to adult literacy and job training programs. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Grawemeyer Award in Education, and awards from the Spencer Foundation, the National Council of Teachers of English, the Modern Language Association, and the American Educational Research Association. He also received the Commonwealth Club of California's Award for Literary Excellence in Nonfiction. His books include" Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Underprepared," "Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America," "The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker," "Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us," and "Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education."

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