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Possible lives : the promise of public education in America / Mike Rose.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks LA217.2 .R7 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rose, Mike (Michael Anthony)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public schools--United States--Case studies.
- Public schools.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 454 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1996.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Los Angeles 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-450).
- University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education, 1997.
- ISBN:
- 0140236171
- 9780140236170
- OCLC:
- 35308738
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