School of Dreams : Making the Grade at a Top American High School
by Humes, Edward
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- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151007039
- ISBN 13
- 9780151007035
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Synopsis
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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- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38424692-6
- Title
- School of Dreams : Making the Grade at a Top American High School
- Author
- Humes, Edward
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151007039
- ISBN 13
- 9780151007035
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- September 1, 2003
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