{"product_id":"school-of-dreams-making-the-grade-at-a-top-american-high-school-0156030071","title":"School Of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0156030071\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Humes, Edward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51666009096480,"sku":"NEW0156030071","price":29.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71YvwgCXf5L.jpg?v=1778918661","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/school-of-dreams-making-the-grade-at-a-top-american-high-school-0156030071","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}