Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Tully, Matthew.

Title Searching for hope : life at a failing school in the heart of America / Matthew Tully
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2012

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xv, 261 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PROLOGUE; 1 WHY ARE YOU HERE?; 2 I NEVER WOULD HAVE 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.; Illustrations; 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
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 intimat
Notes English
Subject Emmerich Manual High School (Indianapolis, Ind.)
SUBJECT Emmerich Manual High School (Indianapolis, Ind.) fast
Subject Children with social disabilities -- Education (Secondary) -- Indiana -- Indianapolis
EDUCATION -- Secondary.
EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
Children with social disabilities -- Education (Secondary)
Indiana -- Indianapolis
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011047610
ISBN 9780253005977
0253005973
9786613528278
6613528277