Mike Rose (educator)
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Mike Rose lecturing at AERA
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| Born | 1944 |
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Loyola University (B.A.) University of Southern California (M.S.) University of California, Los Angeles (M.A. and Ph.D.) |
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| Main interests | Education |
| Notable works | Lives on the Boundary |
Mike Rose (born 1944) is an American education scholar. He has studied literacy and the struggles of working-class America. Rose is currently a Research Professor of Social Research Methodology in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
He is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University (B.A.), the University of Southern California (M.S.), and the University of California, Los Angeles (M.A. and Ph.D.).
Mike Rose was born in 1944 in Altoona, Pennsylvania to Italian immigrants Tommy Rose and Rose Meraglio. At the age of seven, Rose with his family relocated to a working-class neighborhood in South Los Angeles. Rose drifted uneventfully through most of his early education. Through a mix up in test scores with another student with the same surname, Rose was placed in a vocational education track upon entering high school at Our Lady of Mercy. After several years, a teacher looked at Rose's records and discovered that Rose had been misplaced in the vocational track. Rose was moved out of the vocational education track and began the following school year in the college prep track. Once in the college prep track, a dedicated English teacher his senior year, Jack McFarland, soon pushed Rose to reevaluate himself and helped him get admitted as a probationary student to Loyola University. This change in perspective proved to be a turning point for Rose who would then go on to earn a bachelor's degree from Loyola University of Los Angeles and win a graduate fellowship in English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Rose wrote a memoir essay about his awakening as a reader and writer entitled "I Just Wanna Be Average."
In time Rose became disaffected with academia and left graduate study to embark on a series of jobs teaching writing to underprivileged and underprepared students in inner-city Los Angeles Over the next several years Rose would teach everything from elementary writing to basic adult literacy. In time, Rose accepted a position as a director at UCLA’s tutoring center where he was instrumental in shaping tutor training and policy. In 1981 Rose received his PhD in education from UCLA and in 1994 was hired as a faculty member in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Mike Rose has been teaching for nearly forty years.
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