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Possible lives : [electronic resource] the promise of public education in America / Mike Rose.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1995.Description: 454 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0395745462
  • 9780395745465
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Possible lives.DDC classification:
  • 371/.01/0973 20
LOC classification:
  • LA217.2 .R7 1995
Other classification:
  • 5,3
  • D 9200 US 32
Online resources:
Contents:
Los Angles and the LA Basin. -- Calexico, California. -- Baltimore, Maryland. -- Chicago, Illinois. -- New York, New York. -- Berea and Wheelwright, Kentucky. -- Hattiesburg, Tupelo, Jackson, Indianola, Hollandale, and Webb, Mississippi. -- Polaris and Missoula, Montana. -- Tucson, Arizona. -- Possible lives.
Summary: Rose recreates the classrooms he visited and the remarkable, often heroic people he met there, illuminating the qualities, attitudes, and public policies that make for great schools.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-450).

Los Angles and the LA Basin. -- Calexico, California. -- Baltimore, Maryland. -- Chicago, Illinois. -- New York, New York. -- Berea and Wheelwright, Kentucky. -- Hattiesburg, Tupelo, Jackson, Indianola, Hollandale, and Webb, Mississippi. -- Polaris and Missoula, Montana. -- Tucson, Arizona. -- Possible lives.

Rose recreates the classrooms he visited and the remarkable, often heroic people he met there, illuminating the qualities, attitudes, and public policies that make for great schools.

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