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

Humes, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151007039 ISBN 13: 9780151007035

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"Humes' fascinating book chronicles an entirely different group of students, with a different set of challenges."

"Humes'' fascinating book chronicles an entirely different group of students, with a different set of challenges."

PRAISE FOR SCHOOL OF DREAMS
"A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting . . . Deserves an A+, even without grade inflation." -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post book world
"Engrossing . . . Deserves credit for showing that a fine public school education isn't necessarily an oxymoron."-The Boston Globe

"Beautifully written and compulsively readable, told compassionately but with a journalist's eye to getting the whole story."
--Rachel Simmons "author of ODD GIRL OUT "

"A big story told intimately and well, and a book that is not only compulsively readable but also undeniably important."
--Lauren Kessler "University of Oregon "

PRAISE FOR SCHOOL OF DREAMS
"A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting . . . Deserves an A+, even without grade inflation." -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post book world

"Engrossing . . . Deserves credit for showing that a fine public school education isn't necessarily an oxymoron."-The Boston Globe

"School of Dreams gives hope about American education... and genuine excitement about the young people of this nation."
--President, Hampshire College "George S. Prince, Jr. "

"A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting.... It deserves an A+, even without grade inflation."
--Michael Dirda"The Washington Post" (09/07/2003)

From the Back Cover:

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
|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

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0151007039
• ISBN 13: 9780151007035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352