Inspiring Stories of Overcoming Educational Challenges in America - Triumphs of Underprepared Students for Motivation & Learning Success | Perfect for Teachers, Students & Parents

In composing this hybrid text—part memoir, part social commentary, part scholarly analysis of American education—Mike Rose achieves something that eludes most intellectual writers. He writes with humanity about the humanities.His technique genuinely exemplifies the power of storytelling. Through telling the tale of his own education and the challenges he endured to grow from a working class kid raised in Pennsylvania and Los Angeles to become a highly respected scholar/educator at UCLA, Rose demonstrates the contradictions within American culture that make success such an elusive goal for the less privileged.He weaves together with his own story the stories of many students and colleagues he has encountered on his journey through educational institutions. His sensitive and poetic prose imbues those stories with an immediacy and a poignancy rarely found in scholarly discourse.Perhaps most arresting is the reality that many of the issues that plagued the educational system in America at the time Rose wrote this (it was originally published in 1989) remain with us—and in many cases have grown worse.Highly recommended.