School of Dreams Download

Author: Edward Humes
Edition: 1st Harvest Edition 2004
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0156030071

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

The pressure to succeed in our nation's most competitive public high schools is often crushing. Download School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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.

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