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School Of Dreams Making the Grade at a Top American High School
by [Humes, Edward]
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The pressure to succeed in our nation's most competitive public high schools is often crushing. Striving to understand this insular world, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year at California's Whitney High, a school so renowned that parents move across town-and across the world-hoping to enroll their children. That's because schools like Whitney deliver everything parents want: love of learning, a sense of mission, and SAT scores that pave the way to elite universities. Attending such a school, of course, carries its own toll: High-achieving, pressured kids survive on espresso and four hours' sleep a night, falling into despair if they get a B.
Lively, personal, and very readable, School of Dreams uncovers what works-and what doesn't-at this model high school, offering parents, students, and teachers some powerful messages about public education today.
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- Ecco Brand
- Sep 1, 2004 Pub Date:
- 9780156030076 ISBN-13:
- 0156030071 ISBN-10:
- 400.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8 in * 1 in * 5.25 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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