Lives on the Boundary A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educational Underclass

Name: Lives on the Boundary A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educational Underclass
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ISBN: 9780140124033

ISBN-10: 0140124039

ISBN-13: 9780140124033

Edition: 1998

Authors: Mike Rose

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Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient-these are 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 capacities of students, Rose offers a truly democratic vision, one that should be heeded by anyone concerned with America's…

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List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 2/1/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



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


Epilogue: Lilia


Notes


Bibliography