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School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School
de Humes, Edward
- Usado
- Estado
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151007039
- ISBN 13
- 9780151007035
- Librería
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Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Used - Good. ex-library book. goodFormer Library book.. All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofit job training program for youth, empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- More Than Words Inc.
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- WAL-M-2c-002069
- Título
- School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School
- Autor
- Humes, Edward
- Estado del libro
- Used - Good
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0151007039
- ISBN 13
- 9780151007035
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Lugar de publicación
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- September 1, 2003
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More Than Words Inc.
Miembro de Biblio desde 2016
Waltham, Massachusetts
Sobre More Than Words Inc.
More Than Words empowers youth who are in foster care, court-involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. MTW believes that when system-involved youth are challenged with authentic and increasing responsibilities in a business setting, and are given high expectations and a culture of support, they can and will address personal barriers to success, create concrete action plans for their lives, and become contributing members of society. More Than Words began as an online bookselling training program for youth in DCF custody in 2004 and opened its vibrant bookstore on Moody St in Waltham in 2005 and added its Starbucks coffee bar in 2008. MTW replicated its model in the South End of Boston in 2011, thereby doubling the number of youth served annually.
