School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School - Hardcover

Humes, Edward

 
9780151007035: School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0151007039 ISBN 13: 9780151007035
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

What is the price of an education at a top public high school?

Whitney High delivers everything we ask of a school: a love of learning, a sense of mission, and SAT scores to die for. But there are unintended consequences to attending the school of our dreams, as author Edward Humes found during his year inside this world of high achievement and high pressure.

Students work nearly around the clock, building futures to please parents as much as themselves. Their drug of choice? Caffeine. Their goal? Getting into a top college. Their biggest fear? Not living up to their families' stratospheric expectations. But what these kids have going for them is the extraordinary community within Whitney High-- a school with doors open seven days a week, where teachers love teaching and the students linger long after the school day ends.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Edward Humes is a veteran journalist, contributing to the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, and has written numerous books including Baby E. R. and the bestselling Mississippi Mud, Mean Justice, and No Matter How Loud I Shout. A graduate of Hampshire College and a Pulitzer Prize winner, he lives in Southern California with
his family.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year immersed in a remarkable public high school where students struggle to harmonize parents' dreams with their own goals and teachers search for an elusive balance between creating great test-takers and fostering great learners. Humes shares the daily joys, disasters, stress, and struggles of the memorable students of Whitney High, along with their teachers and their parents. The result is an honest and enlightening story of what life is really like for today's high-achieving high-school students -- and a revealing look at the state of education in America today.


"School of Dreams gives hope about the future for American education, cause for alarm about how well-intended policies can undo that hope, and genuine excitement about the young people of this nation."
-- Gregory S. Prince, Jr., President, Hampshire College

"Beautifully written and compulsively readable, told compassionately but with a journalist's eye to getting the whole story, School of Dreams sheds light on the increasing pressures of giving and getting an American education."
-- Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year immersed in a remarkable public high school where students struggle to harmonize parents' dreams with their own goals and teachers search for an elusive balance between creating great test-takers and fostering great learners. Humes shares the daily joys, disasters, stress, and struggles of the memorable students of Whitney High, along with their teachers and their parents. The result is an honest and enlightening story of what life is really like for today's high-achieving high-school students -- and a revealing look at the state of education in America today.


"School of Dreams gives hope about the future for American education, cause for alarm about how well-intended policies can undo that hope, and genuine excitement about the young people of this nation."
-- Gregory S. Prince, Jr., President, Hampshire College

"Beautifully written and compulsively readable, told compassionately but with a journalist's eye to getting the whole story, School of Dreams sheds light on the increasing pressures of giving and getting an American education."
-- Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out

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What is the price of an education at a top public high school?

Whitney High delivers everything we ask of a school: a love of learning, a sense of mission, and SAT scores to die for. But there are unintended consequences to attending the school of our dreams, as author Edward Humes found during his year inside this world of high achievement and high pressure.

Students work nearly around the clock, building futures to please parents as much as themselves. Their drug of choice? Caffeine. Their goal? Getting into a top college. Their biggest fear? Not living up to their families' stratospheric expectations. But what these kids have going for them is the extraordinary community within Whitney High-- a school with doors open seven days a week, where teachers love teaching and the students linger long after the school day ends.

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What is the price of an education at a top public high school?

Whitney High delivers everything we ask of a school: a love of learning, a sense of mission, and SAT scores to die for. But there are unintended consequences to attending the school of our dreams, as author Edward Humes found during his year inside this world of high achievement and high pressure.

Students work nearly around the clock, building futures to please parents as much as themselves. Their drug of choice? Caffeine. Their goal? Getting into a top college. Their biggest fear? Not living up to their families' stratospheric expectations. But what these kids have going for them is the extraordinary community within Whitney High-- a school with doors open seven days a week, where teachers love teaching and the students linger long after the school day ends.

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0151007039
ISBN 13 
9780151007035
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1
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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