the_scrivener_named_bartleby 's review for:

Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Underprepared by Mike Rose

3.0

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As a memoir, and even as a kind of aide for future instructors, this book functions perfectly well as both autobiographical reading material and as a pedagogical tool. It is Rose's ending thesis and call to action that rubs me the wrong way. I'm not sure that it's the solution to all the problems he necessarily outlined over the course of the book.