October 12, 2001

New Books Examine Stressed-Out High-School Students and the Appeal of Home Schooling to Disparate Groups

By ZOE INGALLS

HIGH-SCHOOL HUSTLE: When she was in high school in the early 1980s, Denise Clark Pope fell in love with Walt Whitman. She remembers reading and rereading his poems, the excitement of figuring out a difficult passage. Her memories of high school "abound with such moments of passion and engagement," she writes in her new book, "Doing School," out this month from Yale University Press.

Unfortunately, some of today's best students have a markedly different high-school experience. The

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