The statistics come as a total surprise to most: 45 percent of college and university students do not enrol directly out of school. Many are part-time students, people who are returning to school after life intervened, or otherwise 'nontraditional' learners-and this segment is growing. Back to School is the first book to look at this population of 'second chancers', in a work that Make magazine calls 'optimistic yet simultaneously realistic.'
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A professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Mike Rose is the author of books including "Why School?" (The New Press), "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, California.
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