School Of Dreams - Making the Grade at a Top American High School

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. ...

Product details

• Authors: Edward Humes
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2004
• EAN: 9780156030076
• ISBN: 978-0-15-603007-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Sociology, Popular Culture, Psychology, Secondary Schools, Educational administration and organization, Age groups: children, Student life, Higher education, tertiary education, Social research and statistics, Educational strategies and policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Children's Studies, PSYCHOLOGY: Mental Health, EDUCATION: EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATION: SECONDARY, EDUCATION: Parent Participation, EDUCATION: Student Life & Student Affairs, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Research, EDUCATION: Schools / Levels / Higher, EDUCATION: Evaluation & Assessment