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Possible Lives

The Promise of Public Education in America

By Mike Rose

By Mike Rose

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Category: Nonfiction

Paperback $24.00

Sep 01, 1996 | ISBN 9780140236170

Possible Lives by Mike Rose
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Sep 01, 1996 | ISBN 9780140236170

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About Possible Lives

“This big-shouldered book, full of ardor…offers us a reasonable hope that with attention and care we can again make public education what it was meant to be, and must yet be.”—The Los Angeles Times.

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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… More about Mike Rose

Product Details

Category: Nonfiction

Paperback | $24.00
Published by Penguin Books
Sep 01, 1996 | 496 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780140236170

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Table Of Contents

Possible LivesIntroduction
1. Los Angeles and the LA Basin
2. Calexico, California
3. Baltimore, Maryland
4. Chicago, Illinois
5. New York, New York
6. Berea and Wheelwright, Kentucky
7. Hattiesburg, Tupelo, Jackson, Indianola, Hollandale, and Webb, Mississippi
8. Polaris and Missoula, Montana
9. Tucson, Arizona
10. Possible Lives
A Note on Method
Notes
Acknowledgments

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