Possible Lives

  • Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy
    By Alison Knowles Frazier

    ... in F. W. Kent and P. Simons, with J. C. Eade, eds., Patronage, Art and Society in Renaissance Italy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 111–134, especially 115–119. 104. Letter 376, January 25, 1469, in Paolo Cherubini, ed., ...

  • Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy
    By Alison Knowles Frazier

    Collectanea Trapezuntiana (Bing- hamton, N.Y.: MRTS, 1984), 478–480, listing Garzoni's manuscripts as nos. 4 and 5. 36. Lind, Letters, letter 294: “Quas in opus redegeram Laurentii Vallensi Elegantias (non- dum enim quintum decimum ...

  • Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America
    By Mike Rose

    We are told daily, it seems, that our students don't measure up, either to their predecessors in the United States or their peers in other countries. But over the past...

  • Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America
    By Mike Rose

    "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.

  • Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America
    By Mike Rose

    Rose shows readers how teachers work, how children learn, and what schools do for their neighborhoods. In the process, he offers new hope that by bringing out the best in public education, we can revitalize ourselves as a nation.