 Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Studentsreviewed by Gad Yair - 2002  Title: Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated StudentsAuthor(s): Denise Clark Pope Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven ISBN: 0300090137, Pages: 240, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com "Excellent", I said to myself, "here is the missing piece I've been looking for. I now have a fuller and more realistic picture of the puzzle of students' lives in classrooms." This was my first reaction upon reading Denise Clark Pope's book, Doing School. I was fortunate to have been asked to review this book, and the timing of its arrival on my desk was perfect: I had just begun teaching a course on American school reform, and Pope's book fit neatly into the introduction section. It nicely complemented Theodore Sizer's classic Horace's Compromise, published two decades ago. In that book, Sizer perceptively described a series of contradictory expectations that his fictive teacher, Horace Smith, faced while teaching in high school. In like manner, Pope has provided us with five real-life portraits of ostensibly successful high school students. The five high school students who Pope shadowed during a year-long study were selected by the school's staff. As one guidance counselor told her, "these students represent some of... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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