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Searching for hope [electronic resource] : life at a failing school in the heart of America / Matthew Tully.

Tully, Matthew.
2012
LD7501.I4646 T85 2012eb
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Title
Searching for hope [electronic resource] : life at a failing school in the heart of America / Matthew Tully.
Author
Tully, Matthew.
ISBN
9780253005977 (electronic bk.)
9780253005939
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 261 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
LD7501.I4646 T85 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
373.772/52
Summary
Searching for Hope is a gripping account of life in a once-great high school in a rough Indianapolis neighborhood. Granted unfiltered access to Manual High throughout an entire school year, award-winning journalist Matthew Tully tells the complex story of the everyday drama, failures, and triumphs in one of the nation's many troubled urban public high schools. He walks readers into classrooms, offices, and hallways, painting a vivid picture of the profound academic problems, deep frustrations, and apathy that absorb and sometimes consume students, teachers, and administrators. Yet this intimate view also reveals the hopes, dreams, and untapped talents of some amazing individuals. Providing insights into the challenges confronting those who seek to improve the quality of America's schools, Tully argues that school leaders and policy makers must rally communities to heartfelt engagement with their schools if the crippling social and economic threats to cities such as Indianapolis are to be averted. --Publisher description.
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Prologue
1. Why are you here?
2. I never thought he would be a dandelion
3. Can you believe this?
4. We do a good job with the kids who show up
5. I hate this school
6. Go to class, Zach
7. We're not going to be average here
8. Where's the school spirit?
9. I don't like being called stupid
10. You have to crawl first
11. We're dropping out
12. I get hit all the time
13. We just couldn't get anything started
14. What's gonna happen, Mr. Grismore?
15. Could you imagine if we filled the house?
16. It feels like I'm a somebody
17. I used to be bad
18. I knew I didn't want that
19. There's nobody that can't do something
20. It never stops around here
21. I like to solve problems
22. I'm the kid who doesn't exist
23. Trouble follows me
24. I'm willing to run these schools
25. Now I know why I'm tall
26. Wow, this is amazing
27. We've acted like this is okay
28. You are survivors
Epilogue.

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