Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America - Softcover

Rose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140236171 ISBN 13: 9780140236170

Publisher: Penguin, 1996

Synopsis

Over the past four years, Mike Rose has been visiting classrooms across the country and has been struck again and again by their intellectual and social richness and by what they suggest about education in a democracy. We are told continually by both entertainment and the news media that our students don't measure up, either to their predecessors in the United States or to their peers in other countries. Schools are depicted as mediocre or violent and chaotic places where students are raucous and teachers are not up to their jobs. As a result, increasing numbers of people don't even consider public schools as an option for their children, and more and more, we speak of the schools as being in decline. In Possible Lives, Rose shows us what really goes on in good classrooms: how teachers work, how students learn, what schools give to their neighborhoods.

About this title

About the Author:

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 the National Academy of Education and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Grawemeyer Award in Education, and awards from the Spencer Foundation, the National Council of Teachers of English, the Modern Language Association, and the American Educational Research Association. He also received the Commonwealth Club of California's Award for Literary Excellence in Nonfiction. His books include Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Underprepared, Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America, The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker, Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us, and Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education.

Synopsis:

Offers a detailed look inside America's diverse classrooms, tracing the way teachers and students work together and giving grounds for hope for the future of public education.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140236171
• ISBN 13: 9780140236170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464