School of dreams : making the grade at a top American high school /

Humes, Edward.

School of dreams : making the grade at a top American high school / Edward Humes. - Orlando : Harcourt, c2003. - xxx, 370 p. 24 cm.

Includes index.

What does a top public school look like? In the case of Whitney High, it's a ramshackle campus in an bad part of L.A. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Humes spent a year in this world, where the best and brightest students struggle to harmonize parents' dreams with their own goals. www.alibris.com

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Public schools--United States

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