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Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick? [nytimes.com]

Alicia St. Andrews 1/4/163:35 PM

We think of this as a problem only of the urban and suburban elite, but in traveling the country to report on this issue, I have seen that this stress has a powerful effect on children across the socioeconomic spectrum...

Working together, parents, educators and students can make small but important changes: instituting everyday homework limits and weekend and holiday homework bans, adding advisory periods for student support and providing students opportunities to show their growth in creative ways beyond conventional tests. Communities across the country — like Gaithersburg, Md., Cadiz, Ky., and New York City — are already taking some of these steps. In place of the race for credentials, local teams are working to cultivate deep learning, integrity, purpose and personal connection. In place of high-stakes childhoods, they are choosing health.

[For more on this story, by Vicki Abeles, go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01...ldren-sick.html?_r=1]

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