http://www.metafilter.com/tags/humes Posts tagged with 'humes' at MetaFilter. Mon, 08 Sep 2003 08:27:36 -0800 Mon, 08 Sep 2003 08:27:36 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/28146/High%2DSchool%2DDaze <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28398-2003Sep4.html">The best high school in America?</a> WaPo's Michael Dirda reviews Edward Humes' School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School. <br><br><a href="http://www.whitneyhs.net/">Gretchen Whitney High</a> is an incredible success ("People move to the Cerritos area so that their children can attend this school... And by move I don't mean from Los Angeles: They relocate from India, from Korea") story academically, especially considering its <a href="http://www.greenes.com/html/whitney.html">origins</a> But there's always a price, typically exacted by the parents, who display the same good sense and no-pressure behaviors they've displayed at Little League and Pop Warner games. But no one's killed anybody over Whitney admission, at least that we know of. The story of Cecilia's art portfolio, though, will break your heart. Humes offers larger lessons, too, about how to improve our schools. I am buying this book today. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.28146 Mon, 08 Sep 2003 08:27:36 -0800 academics cerritos education highschool humes whitney mojohand