School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780156030076)

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.

Author: Edward Humes
ISBN-10: 0156030071
ISBN-13: 9780156030076
Publisher: Ecco Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2004
Pages: 370
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.20d