Mike Rose

Mike Rose (1944-2021)

Mike Rose (1944-2021)

Research Professor

Mike Rose taught in a wide range of educational settings, from elementary school to adult literacy and job training programs—and for many years administered tutorial centers and writing programs at the college level. He was a member of the National Academy of Education and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Grawemeyer Award in Education, and awards from the Spencer Foundation, the National Council of Teachers of English, the Modern Language Association, and the American Educational Research Association. His books include Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America’s Educationally Underprepared; Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America; The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker; Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us; and Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education.

Read the full obituary honoring Mike Rose here.

 

Departments

Awards, Honors, Fellowships

  • Member, National Academy of Education
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
  • The Grawemeyer Award in Education
  • Commonwealth Club of California Medal in Non-Fiction for “Exceptional Literary Achievement”
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA campus-wide
  • The Spencer Foundation Mentor Program Award
  • American Educational Research Association Presidential Citation
  • James R. Squire Award for Outstanding Service from the National Council of Teachers of English
  • Exemplar Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication
  • American Educational Research Association Distinguished Lectureship
  • Distinguished Research Award from the National Council of Research in Language and Literacy
  • The Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize from the Modern Language Association for Outstanding Research Publication in the Teaching of English Language & Literature
  • The Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award
  • Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Education
  • National Council of Teachers of English Promising Research Award

Education

Ph.D., Education, UCLA, 1981

Publications

  • “What It Means to Care in a Classroom,” The Answer Sheet, in The Washington Post. (October 13, 2020).
  • “Who Should Be Writing About Education and Isn’t?” The Answer Sheet, in The Washington Post. (September 3, 2019).
  • “Writing Our Way into the Public Sphere,” Teachers College Record (v. 120, n. 10) 2018.
  • “A Powerfully Humane Element of Teaching,” The Answer Sheet, in The Washington Post. (August 6, 2018).
  • “Essay on Challenges Facing the Guided-Pathways Model for Restructuring Two-Year Colleges” Inside Higher Ed (June 23, 2016).
  • “The Problem with Teaching ‘Grit’ to Poor Kids? They Already Have It. Here’s What They Really Need,” The Answer Sheet, in The Washington Post. (May 10, 2016).
  • “A Conversation with Mike Rose on Writing, Parts 1 & 2,” Kenyon Review online, November 2 & 9, 2015.
  • Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education (New York: New Press, 2012; paperback edition, 2015).
  • The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker (New York: Viking, 2004, Penguin Paperback, 2005). Tenth Anniversary Edition with a new preface, 2014.