The statistics come as a total surprise to most: 45 percent of postsecondary school students do not enroll directly out of high 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. Writing in the anecdotal style of his bestselling Possible Lives, veteran educator Mike Rose paints a vivid picture of the community...
The statistics come as a total surprise to most: 45 percent of postsecondary school students do not enroll directly out of high school. Many are part-...
"The Crimson Ghost" is a rare fictional effort by the author, Mike Rose. Although the product of his imagine, the story mirrors the sad happenings that occurred so many times on the home front in World War II. Major players in the story become a young boy named Jeremy, his mother, this grandfather, an old Native American, and a very large fish. As events play out, the young lad pursues his quest to try and relive those once golden days with his father, and to also fulfill his grandfather's dream.
"The Crimson Ghost" is a rare fictional effort by the author, Mike Rose. Although the product of his imagine, the story mirrors the sad happenings tha...