School of Dreams Making the Grade at a Top American High School

Name: School of Dreams Making the Grade at a Top American High School
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ISBN: 9780156030076

ISBN-10: 0156030071

ISBN-13: 9780156030076

Edition: 2003

Authors: Edward Humes

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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…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 0.792

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.



Author's Note


Prologue



Four is the Magic Number: Four Hours Sleep, Four Caffe Lattes, 4.0



Cow Towns and College Boards



Finding the Lucky Pants


Epilogue


Notes


Index