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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 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.

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PRAISE FOR SCHOOL OF DREAMS A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting . . . Deserves an A+, even without grade inflation. -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post book world Engrossing . . . Deserves credit for showing that a fine public school education isn't necessarily an oxymoron.-The Boston Globe --No Source

Humes' fascinating book chronicles an entirely different group of students, with a different set of challenges. Humes'' fascinating book chronicles an entirely different group of students, with a different set of challenges. A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting.... It deserves an A+, even without grade inflation. --Michael Dirda The Washington Post (09/07/2003) School of Dreams gives hope about American education... and genuine excitement about the young people of this nation. --President, Hampshire College George S. Prince, Jr. PRAISE FOR SCHOOL OF DREAMS A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting . . . Deserves an A+, even without grade inflation. -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post book world Engrossing . . . Deserves credit for showing that a fine public school education isn't necessarily an oxymoron. -The Boston Globe A big story told intimately and well, and a book that is not only compulsively readable but also undeniably important. --Lauren Kessler University of Oregon Beautifully written and compulsively readable, told compassionately but with a journalist's eye to getting the whole story. --Rachel Simmons author of ODD GIRL OUT PRAISE FOR SCHOOL OF DREAMS A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting . . . Deserves an A+, even without grade inflation. -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post book world Engrossing . . . Deserves credit for showing that a fine public school education isn't necessarily an oxymoron. -The Boston Globe

Humes' fascinating book chronicles an entirely different group of students, with a different set of challenges. Humes'' fascinating book chronicles an entirely different group of students, with a different set of challenges. A big story told intimately and well, and a book that is not only compulsively readable but also undeniably important. --Lauren Kessler University of Oregon A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting . It deserves an A+, even without grade inflation. --Michael Dirda The Washington Post (09/07/2003) School of Dreams gives hope about American education and genuine excitement about the young people of this nation. --President, Hampshire College George S. Prince, Jr. Beautifully written and compulsively readable, told compassionately but with a journalist's eye to getting the whole story. --Rachel Simmons author of ODD GIRL OUT PRAISE FOR SCHOOL OF DREAMS A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting . . . Deserves an A+, even without grade inflation. -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post book world Engrossing . . . Deserves credit for showing that a fine public school education isn't necessarily an oxymoron. -The Boston Globe PRAISE FOR SCHOOL OF DREAMS A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting . . . Deserves an A+, even without grade inflation. -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post book world Engrossing . . . Deserves credit for showing that a fine public school education isn't necessarily an oxymoron. -The Boston Globe

School of Dreams gives hope about American education... and genuine excitement about the young people of this nation. --President, Hampshire College George S. Prince, Jr. PRAISE FOR SCHOOL OF DREAMS A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting . . . Deserves an A+, even without grade inflation. -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post book world Engrossing . . . Deserves credit for showing that a fine public school education isn't necessarily an oxymoron.-The Boston Globe Beautifully written and compulsively readable, told compassionately but with a journalist's eye to getting the whole story. --Rachel Simmons author of ODD GIRL OUT A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting.... It deserves an A+, even without grade inflation. --Michael Dirda The Washington Post (9/7/2003 12:00:00 AM) Humes' fascinating book chronicles an entirely different group of students, with a different set of challenges. -- Los Angeles Times (8/31/2003 12:00:00 AM) A big story told intimately and well, and a book that is not only compulsively readable but also undeniably important. --Lauren Kessler University of Oregon

Humes' fascinating book chronicles an entirely different group of students, with a different set of challenges. Humes'' fascinating book chronicles an entirely different group of students, with a different set of challenges. A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting.... It deserves an A+, even without grade inflation. --Michael Dirda The Washington Post (09/07/2003) School of Dreams gives hope about American education... and genuine excitement about the young people of this nation. --President, Hampshire College George S. Prince, Jr. PRAISE FOR SCHOOL OF DREAMS A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting . . . Deserves an A+, even without grade inflation. -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post book world Engrossing . . . Deserves credit for showing that a fine public school education isn't necessarily an oxymoron. -The Boston Globe Beautifully written and compulsively readable, told compassionately but with a journalist's eye to getting the whole story. --Rachel Simmons author of ODD GIRL OUT A big story told intimately and well, and a book that is not only compulsively readable but also undeniably important. --Lauren Kessler University of Oregon PRAISE FOR SCHOOL OF DREAMS A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting . . . Deserves an A+, even without grade inflation. -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post book world Engrossing . . . Deserves credit for showing that a fine public school education isn't necessarily an oxymoron. -The Boston Globe

A big story told intimately and well, and a book that is not only compulsively readable but also undeniably important. --Lauren Kessler University of Oregon A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting.... It deserves an A+, even without grade inflation. --Michael Dirda The Washington Post (9/7/2003 12:00:00 AM) Beautifully written and compulsively readable, told compassionately but with a journalist's eye to getting the whole story. --Rachel Simmons author of ODD GIRL OUT Humes' fascinating book chronicles an entirely different group of students, with a different set of challenges. -- Los Angeles Times (8/31/2003 12:00:00 AM) PRAISE FOR SCHOOL OF DREAMS A masterly example of passionate yet even-handed reporting . . . Deserves an A+, even without grade inflation. -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post book world Engrossing . . . Deserves credit for showing that a fine public school education isn't necessarily an oxymoron.-The Boston Globe School of Dreams gives hope about American education... and genuine excitement about the young people of this nation. --President, Hampshire College George S. Prince, Jr.

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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.

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