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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Mike Rose; Mike Rose |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mike Rose |
ISBN: | 0143035460 9780143035466 |
OCLC Number: | 224781054 |
Notes: | "With a new afterword"--Cover. |
Description: | xiv, 269 pages ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Our schools and our children -- "I just wanna be average" -- Entering the conversation -- The poem is a substitute for love -- Literate stirrings -- Reclaiming the classroom -- The politics of remediation -- Crossing boundaries. |
Responsibility: | Mike Rose. |
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"A mirror to the many lacking perfect grammar and spelling who may see their dreams translated into reality after all." -Los Angeles Times Book Review"Vividly written . . . tears apart all of society's prejudices about the academic abilities of the underprivileged." -New York Times Read more...

