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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 the academic achievements of students. Now, as my own children approach high school, I find I am concerned not only with students' academic success, but also with their social, emotional, and moral development. For the third edition I looked for schools that spark students' curiosity, broaden their horizons, and help them develop into thoughtful, caring adults. - Clara Hemphill

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 the academic achievements of students. Now, as my own children approach high school, I find I am concerned not only with students' academic success, but also with their social, emotional, and moral development. For the third edition I looked for schools that spark students' curiosity, broaden their horizons, and help them develop into thoughtful, caring adults. - Clara Hemphill

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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 """"an influential New Yorker"""" for 2006 by New York Magazine.

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