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CrossX 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 Community on Race Power and Education
Author: Joe Miller

— A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year — By almost all measures, Kansas City's Central High School is just another failing inner-city school--with abysmal test scores, only one in three graduate. Cross-X is the riveting story of Central's championship debate team. As the students and their coach face formidable oppo...  more »nents from elite prep schools, they must also battle bureaucrats who seem maddeningly determined to hold them back, friends and family who are mired in poverty and drug addiction, and--perhaps most daunting--their own self-destructive choices. It is a gripping story about the essential nature of debate in any democratic society, and how through argument, retort, and wit, ideals survive even under the most difficult conditions.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780312426972
ISBN-10: 0312426976
Publication Date: 10/2/2007
Pages: 528
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Picador
Book Type: Paperback
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