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.
爱德华·休姆斯(Edward Humes)
新闻记者,曾获得普利策新闻奖。休姆斯的作品包括《新生儿加护病房的春天》(Baby E.R)、畅销书《密西西比泥沼》(Mississippi Mud》、《公平审列》(Mean Justice)以及获得美国会年度非小说类大奖的《无论我多人声音呼喊》(No Matter How Loud I Shout)。休姆斯现居住在南加州。
在最崇尚梦想与自由的美国,有一群孩子在古老的东方文化的教育理念中苦苦挣扎,他们有着西式的生活方式,和比国内更加中式的父母,在这种“斗争”中,自我塑造了坚毅的品质和独立思考的能力。美国学生的学习方式比想象中的更加应试,也更加富有创造性,每个人在一个庞大的专业...
评分 评分看这本书之前,我很想了解美国的初等教育是什么样的。但是我发现,Whitney作为全美最好的公立中学之一,它“好”的表现就在于它跟亚洲中学的相似性 。这所学校在建立之初苟延残喘的时候,就发现想在敌意满满的加州公立学校系统中立足的话,只有一个重点要抓 – 升学率,还有常...
评分 评分Whitney High School是加州的top high school,作者(普利策奖获得者)经过一年的“蹲校”写出了这本纪实书籍。对美国高中学制有一定解读。
评分Whitney High School是加州的top high school,作者(普利策奖获得者)经过一年的“蹲校”写出了这本纪实书籍。对美国高中学制有一定解读。
评分Whitney High School是加州的top high school,作者(普利策奖获得者)经过一年的“蹲校”写出了这本纪实书籍。对美国高中学制有一定解读。
评分太惊人啦,太好看啦!不愧是普利策奖得主的作品!
评分Whitney High School是加州的top high school,作者(普利策奖获得者)经过一年的“蹲校”写出了这本纪实书籍。对美国高中学制有一定解读。