Denise Clark Pope: Doing School : How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students


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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. On the one hand, they work hard in school, participate in extracurricular activities, serve their communities, earn awards and honors, and appear to uphold school values. But on the other hand, they feel that in order to get ahead they must compromise their values. In short, they "do school"-that is, they are not really engaged with learning nor can they commit to such values as integrity and community.The words and actions of these five students-two boys and three girls from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds-underscore the frustrations of being caught in a "grade trap" that pins future success to high grades and test scores. Their stories raise critical questions that are too important for parents, educators, and community leaders to ignore. Are schools cultivating an environment that promotes intellectual curiosity, cooperation, and integrity? Or are they fostering anxiety, deception, and hostility? Do today's schools inadvertently impede the very values they claim to embrace? Is the "success" that current assessment practices measure the kind of success we want for our children?
Dripping with New York glamour, this bestseller will capture the hearts of all those Doing School : How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students download ebook who loved The Devil Wears Prada Bette gets paid to party ...And she can hardly believe her luck. Gaining VIP access to Manhattan's hottest spots and meeting 'everyone worth knowing' is a million miles away from her old job. Overnight, New York has become her sexy late-night playground. But quicker than you can say Chanel, Bette turns up in the gossip columns as girlfriend to a notorious British playboy. It's news that delights her new boss - but her friends want to know what's happened to the girl they love, who always had time for nights filled with 80s music, junk food, trashy rom-coms and her mates. Can Bette say goodbye to the parties and the Prada and step back into the real world - and find a prince who's got a heart to match his charm?
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Author: Denise Clark Pope
Number of Pages: 240 pages
Published Date: 01 Feb 2003
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Country: New Haven, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780300098334
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