School of Dreams(English, Paperback, Humes Edward)

Know about the book -

School of Dreams(English, Paperback, Humes Edward) is written by Humes Edward and published by Ecco Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0156030071 (ISBN 10) and 9780156030076 (ISBN 13).

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.