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What does a top public school look like? In the case of Whitney High, it's a ramshackle campus in an unfashionable part of L.A., where the budgets are tight and the student body resembles a mini United Nations. Despite its appearance, families move across town-and across the world-hoping to enroll their children. Whitney High delivers everything parents want from a public school: love of learning, a sense of mission, and SAT scores that pave the way to elite universities. But attending a dream high school carries a toll: high-achieving, high-pressured kids survive on espresso and four hours' sleep and fall into despair if they get a B. Forget Generation X. This is Generation Stressed.Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes spent a year immersed in this remarkable world, where our best and brightest students struggle to harmonize ambitious parents' dreams with their own goals, and teachers search for an elusive balance between creating great test-takers and fostering great learners.
What does a top public school look like? In the case of Whitney High, it's a ramshackle campus in an unfashionable part of L.A., where the budgets are tight and the student body resembles a mini United Nations. Despite its appearance, families move across town-and across the world-hoping to enroll their children. Whitney High delivers everything parents want from a public school: love of learning, a sense of mission, and SAT scores that pave the way to elite universities. But attending a dream high school carries a toll: high-achieving, high-pressured kids survive on espresso and four hours' sleep and fall into despair if they get a B. Forget Generation X. This is Generation Stressed.Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes spent a year immersed in this remarkable world, where our best and brightest students struggle to harmonize ambitious parents' dreams with their own goals, and teachers search for an elusive balance between creating great test-takers and fostering great learners.
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