School of Dreams
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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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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780156030076
- Binding
- Paperback
- Authors
- Edward Humes
- Publisher
- Ecco Press
- Published Date
- September 1, 2004
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 370
- Physical Info
- 1.2 in H x 7.9 in L x 5.2 in W (0.95 lb)