Educating the Disadvantaged - filmBorn to immigrant parents in a poor neighborhood in Los Angeles, Mike Rose was not expected to make it in school. He did—and went on to become a teacher, working with people on the edges of society: inner-city children, Vietnam veterans, adults trying to overcome a lifetime of disadvantage.
As associate director of the writing program at UCLA, he continued to teach under-prepared students how to enter and succeed in the academic world. He wrote about his students, many of them poor, all of them labeled failures, as he once was. In this program with Bill Moyers, Rose discussed his ideas on education in general and educating the disadvantaged. "The presence of such a huge number of people who are so disenfranchised," he says, "runs counter to the best story that this country tells itself about itself." (30 minutes)
Mike Rose was a research professor in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. He authored several books, including The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker, Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us, and more recently Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education.
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