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Lives on the boundary : the struggles and achievements of America's underprepared
- Title
- Lives on the boundary : the struggles and achievements of America's underprepared / Mike Rose.
- Author
- Rose, Mike (Michael Anthony)
- Publication
- New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, [1989]
- ©1989
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | LB1029.R4 R58 1989 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 255 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- The author's account of teaching America's "underprepared" and of his personal journey from a Los Angeles ghetto to a major research university.
- Subject
- Rose, Mike
- Rose, Mike
- People with social disabilities > Education > United States
- Remedial teaching > United States
- Literacy > United States
- College teachers > United States > Biography
- College teachers
- Literacy
- People with social disabilities > Education
- Remedial teaching
- Förderunterricht
- Legasthenie
- Teachers > Biography
- Literacy
- Reading > Remedial teaching
- Socially handicapped > Education
- Legasthenie
- United States
- Genre/Form
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 249-255.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0029268214
- 9780029268216
- LCCN
- 88021469
- OCLC
- ocm18324010
- 18324010
- SCSB-8900630
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library