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New York City's Best Public High Schools
Clara Hemphill
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Description for New York City's Best Public High Schools
Paperback. Provides advice to help parents and students through the admissions process for schools in New York. This guide uncovers the "inside scoop" about school atmosphere, homework, student stress, competition among students, the quality of teachers, gender issues, the condition of the building, class size, and more. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JNLC; VSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 304.
If you lived anywhere else in the country, you would probably send your child to your neighborhood high school. In New York City, it's much more complicated than that. But what parent has time to research hundreds of school options? To help you choose a high school that is just right for your child, Clara Hemphill and her colleagues at Insideschools visited nearly all of the city's 400 high schools. This essential revision of the critically acclaimed parents' guide features new school profiles; invaluable advice to help parents and students through the stressful admissions process; and new sections on alternative ... Read more
If you lived anywhere else in the country, you would probably send your child to your neighborhood high school. In New York City, it's much more complicated than that. But what parent has time to research hundreds of school options? To help you choose a high school that is just right for your child, Clara Hemphill and her colleagues at Insideschools visited nearly all of the city's 400 high schools. This essential revision of the critically acclaimed parents' guide features new school profiles; invaluable advice to help parents and students through the stressful admissions process; and new sections on alternative ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Teachers' College Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780807748206
SKU
V9780807748206
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About Clara Hemphill
Clara Hemphill has two children who attend New York City public schools. She was the director of Insideschools.org, a service of Advocates for Children, an overseas correspondent for the Associated Press, a producer for CBS News, and a reporter and editorial writer at New York Newsday, where she shared the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. Clara was also named ... Read more
Reviews for New York City's Best Public High Schools
The most definitive guidebooks to the city schools. - The New York Times ""Brisk, thoughtful profiles of topnotch, intriguing schools."" - New York Daily News ""Hemphill has done for schools what Zagat's did for restaurants."" - Big Apple Parent ""Thoughtful, well-researched... required reading."" - New York Magazine ""When I wrote the second edition of this book, I looked primarily at ... Read more