Searching for hope
Subtitle: life at a failing school in the heart of America
By: Matthew Tully
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780253005939; 9780253005977
Subjects: Children with social disabilities; Education (Secondary); Emmerich Manual High School (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Description: earching for Hope is a gripping account of life in a once-great high school in a rough Indianapolis neighborhood. Granted unfiltered access to Manual High throughout an entire school year, award-winning journalist Matthew Tully tells the complex story of the everyday drama, failures, and triumphs in one of the nation's many troubled urban public high schools. He walks readers into classrooms, offices, and hallways, painting a vivid picture of the profound academic problems, deep frustrations, and apathy that absorb and sometimes consume students, teachers, and administrators. Yet this intimate view also reveals the hopes, dreams, and untapped talents of some amazing individuals. Providing insights into the challenges confronting those who seek to improve the quality of America's schools, Tully argues that school leaders and policy makers must rally communities to heartfelt engagement with their schools if the crippling social and economic threats to cities such as Indianapolis are to be averted. --Publisher description.