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High school: tales from the inside.(Another Planet: A Year in the Life of a Suburban High School)(Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity: One Season in a Progressive School)(Class Dismissed: A Year in the Life of an American High School, a Glimpse into the Heart of a Nation)(School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School)(Wonderland: A Year in the Life of an American High School)(Book review)
From:
Education Next
| Date:
March 22, 2006| Author:
Ferrero, David
| COPYRIGHT 2006 Hoover Institution Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Another Planet: A Year in the Life of a Suburban High School
By Elinor Burkett
HarperCollins, 2001, $12.95; 352 pages.
Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity: One Season in a Progressive School
By Elizabeth Gold
Tarcher/Penguin, 2003, $15.95; 336 pages.
Class Dismissed: A Year in the Life of an American High School, a Glimpse into the Heart of a Nation
By Meredith Maran
St Martin's Griffin, 2000,...
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