Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education - Couverture rigide

Rose, Mike

 
9781595587862: Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education
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ISBN 10 : 1595587861 ISBN 13 : 9781595587862
Editeur : The New Press, 2012

Synopsis

It’s a statistic that’s sure to surprise: close to 45 percent of postsecondary students in the United States today do not enroll in college directly out of high school and many attend part-time. Following a tradition of self-improvement as old as the Republic, the “nontraditional” college student is becoming the norm. Back to School is the first book to look at the schools that serve a growing population of “second-chancers,” exploring what higher education—in the fullest sense of the term—can offer our rapidly changing society and why it is so critical to support the institutions that make it possible for millions of Americans to better their lot in life.

In the anecdotal style of his bestselling Possible Lives, Rose crafts rich and moving vignettes of people in tough circumstances who find their way; who get a second . . . or third . . . or even fourth chance; and who, in a surprising number of cases, reinvent themselves as educated, engaged citizens. Rose reminds us that our nation’s economic and civic future rests heavily on the health of the institutions that serve millions of everyday people—not simply the top twenty universities in U.S. News and World Report—and paints a vivid picture of the community colleges and adult education programs that give so many a shot at reaching their aspirations.

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À propos de l?auteur

Mike Rose, a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, is the author of many books, including Lives on the Boundary, The Mind at Work, and Possible Lives. Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Grawemeyer Award in Education, and the Commonwealth Club of California Award for Literary Excellence in Nonfiction. He lives in Santa Monica.

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Éditeur
The New Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1595587861
ISBN 13 
9781595587862
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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