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“I Just Wanna Be Average” MIKE ROSE
Mike Rose is anything but average: he has published poetry, scholarly research, a textbook, and two widely praised books on education in America. A professor in the School of Educa:ion at UCLA, Rose has won awards from the National Academy of Education, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Below you’ll read the story of how this highly successful teacher and writer started high school in the “vocational education” track, learning dead-end skills from teachers who were often underprepared or incompetent.
Rose shows that students whom the system has written off can have tremendous unrealized potential, and his critique of the school system specifies several reasons for the failure” of students who go through high school belligerent, fearful, stoned, frustrated, or just plain bored. This selection comes from Lives on the Boundary (1989), Rose’s exploration of America’s educationally underprivileged His most recent bock, Possible Lives (1996), offers a nationwide tour of creative classrooms and innovative educational programs. Rose is currently researching a new book on the thinking patterns of blue-collar workers.
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