num_pages: 496
description: "This big-shouldered book, full of ardor...offers us a reasonable hope that with attention and care we can again make public education what it was meant to be, and must yet be."— The Los Angeles Times .
language: English
title: Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America
titlecomplete: Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America
genres: School, Teaching, Education, Read For School, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 145
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: California Book Award
category: Nonfiction (Silver)
publisher: Penguin Books