Cross-X The Amazing True Story of How the Most Unlikely Team from the Most Unlikely of Places Overcame Staggering Obstacles at Home and at School to Challenge the Debate Community on Race, Power, and Education

Name: Cross-X The Amazing True Story of How the Most Unlikely Team from the Most Unlikely of Places Overcame Staggering Obstacles at Home and at School to Challenge the Debate Community on Race, Power, and Education
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ISBN: 9780312426972

ISBN-10: 0312426976

ISBN-13: 9780312426972

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Authors: Joe Miller

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AChicago TribuneBest Book of the Year nbsp; By almost all measures, Kansas City's Central High School is just another failing inner-city school--with abysmal test scores, only one in three graduate.Cross-Xis the riveting story of Central's championship debate team. As the students and their coach face formidable opponents from elite prep schools, they must also battle bureaucrats who seem maddeningly determined to hold them back, friends and family who are mired in poverty and drug addiction, and--perhaps most daunting--their own self-destructive choices. It is a gripping story about the essential nature of debate in any democratic society, and how through argument, retort, and wit, ideals…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 10/2/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Joe Miller is an outdoors and fitness writer based in Cary, N.C. He produces the outdoor recreation blog http://www.getgoingnc.com/ and is author of 100 Classic Hikes in North Carolina.