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Genre/Form: | Biography Autobiographies Biographies |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rose, Mike (Michael Anthony). Lives on the boundary. New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1989 (OCoLC)664313937 |
Named Person: | Mike Rose; Mike Rose; Mike Rose |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mike Rose |
ISBN: | 0029268214 9780029268216 |
OCLC Number: | 18324010 |
Description: | xiv, 255 pages ; 25 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. |
Abstract:
The author's account of teaching America's "underprepared" and of his personal journey from a Los Angeles ghetto to a major research university.
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