num_pages: 400
description: 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 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 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.
language: English
title: School Of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School
titlecomplete: School Of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School
genres: Memoir, Education, Nonfiction, Teaching
ratings_count: 224
publisher: Ecco