"Lives on the Boundary"

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This paper reviews the book "Lives on the Boundary" by Mike Rose, which provides a unique picture of the struggles and achievements of students scholastically unprepared for university. The paper praises the book, which it says is written in an easy-to-read novel format that contains facts and figures about the large number of Americans trapped by functional illiteracy -- including Rose himself at one point in his life. According to the paper, the book has become required reading in most education programs, which attests to Rose's hard work, insights, superior writing skills and astute powers of observation.

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"In examining the characters of this book one quickly finds the selected characters are typical of a cross section of American Youth. They come from our vast multi-culture democracy in all shapes, sizes, colors and ethnicity, and are truly representative of the Great American Middle Class. Their common problem of course is the inability to communicate effectively for various reasons not many of which are through faults of their own making. It is the vast and growing group of our Youth the school systems of their particular locations has failed miserably to prepare for life in this now complex global society wherein we all find ourselves. And, at the time of assembling this work it was much the pity as America was pushing away a huge pool of truly talented and gifted persons condemning them to lives on the lowest possible rungs of the socio-economic ladder where obviously they did not belong."

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