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Joe Miller

Cross-X

The Amazing True Story of How the Most Unlikely Team from the Most Unlikely of Places Overcame Staggering Obstacles at Home and at School to Challenge the Debate Community on Race, Power, and Education

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In Cross-X, journalist Joe Miller follows the Kansas City Central High School's debate squad through the 2002 season that ends with a top-ten finish at the national championships in Atlanta.By almost all measures, Central is just another failing inner-city school. Ninety-nine percent of the students are minorities. Only one in three graduate. Test scores are so low that Missouri bureaucrats have declared the school academically deficient. But week after week, a crew of Central kids heads off to debate tournaments in suburbs across the Midwest and South, where they routinely beat teams from top-ranked schools. In a game of fast-talking, wit, a… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4299-2316-3
  • EAN: 9781429923163
  • Produktnummer: 22463625
  • Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 496 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 525 KB
  • Auflage: First Edition
  • Abbildungen: Frontispiece

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