Publisher's Synopsis
"Study shows senior year is wasted." "Senior slump a nationwide problem." These are among recent headlines attesting to the apathy, absenteeism, and lost opportunity that are widespread among high school seniors - so much so that a national commission was founded in 2000 to investigate. Nancy Faust Sizer was a prominent member and knows from her twenty-five years of teaching how the quality of the senior year has declined. So she decided to interview a variety of seniors from diverse schools to get their side of the story. As it turns out, senior year is harder than most of us remember. Yet Sizer sees this period as an opportunity - a time when seniors could devote all or part of their last year to a new kind of study, a serious investigation of a topic of personal interest that could shape short- and long-range habits and future plans.
