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"Doing school" : how we are creating a generation of stressed out, materialistic, and miseducated students / Denise Clark Pope.
LIBRA LA229 .P59 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pope, Denise Clark, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- High school students--United States.
- High school students.
- Student aspirations.
- United States.
- Academic achievement--United States.
- Academic achievement.
- Student aspirations--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 212 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- This book offers a revealing--and troubling--view of today's high school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Veteran teacher Denise Pope follows five highly regarded students through a school year and discovers that these young people believe getting ahead requires manipulating the system, scheming, lying, and cheating.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212).
- ISBN:
- 0300090137
- OCLC:
- 46678180
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