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| | "Among many teens, cheating is part of school" - Mercury News, March 31, 2012 | |
| |  | The honest truth about cheating in high school lurks just below the veneer of virtue: A whole lot of students do it, regularly and with impunity. more... | |
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| | "How to Stop Your Kids from Stressing" - CNN Health Blog, February 16, 2012 | |
| | | | Editor's note: CNN contributor Amanda Enayati ponders the theme of seeking serenity: the quest for well-being and life balance in stressful times. more... | |
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| | "Parental Anxiety" - NBC Bay Area, December 16, 2011 | |
| | | | Madeline Levine, author of "The Price of Privilege" and co-founder of Challenge Success at Stanford, on how to ease our concerns. (with video) more... | |
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| | "Parents, Should We Change Directions?" - NewsAdvance, December 5, 2011 | |
| | | | Too many students at Stanford and other exclusive colleges seem to experience high stress, share the belief cheating is acceptable, “kiss up” to teachers, and learn to make high grades without thinking critically or broadly… more... | |
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| | "Stanford happiness class proves popular, helpful" - San Francisco Chronicle, November 29, 2011 | |
| | | | Like most Stanford students, master's candidate Nick Enge has a jam-packed schedule. Besides taking a full course load [...]. Enge admits that his full schedule can be stressful, but this quarter, he has made time to serve as teaching assistant in one more class that he calls "the most valuable": the happiness class. more... | |
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| | "Do high schools squash the joy of learning?" - Palo Alto Online, November 18, 2011 | |
| | | | The high school environment does not generally promote or support a path to purpose, according to Denise Pope, a lecturer with the Stanford University School of Education and co-founder of Challenge Success, an organization concerned about students who compromise health, integrity and learning due to performance pressure. more... | |
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| | "The Global Search for Education: On Success" - Huffington Post, November 16, 2011 | |
| | | | The desire for successful children in a performance-based culture often consumes us before we realize it. "More is better" might innocently trickle into the mindset, but before you know it, the winner takes all dynamics of a competitive society can easily become a part of our everyday lives. more... | |
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| | "How are college admission professionals and university officials addressing student stress?"
Stanford University Undergraduate Admission Counselor Newsletter 2011-2012, p2 | |
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The Palo Alto tragedy was a wake-up call. While it’s impossible more... | |
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| | "At Elite Schools, Easing Up a Bit on Homework" - New York Times, October 23, 2011 | |
| | | | It was the kind of memo that high school students would dream of getting, if they dreamed in memos. Lisa Waller, director of the high school at Dalton, a famously rigorous private school on the Upper East Side, sent a letter to parents this summer announcing that tests and papers would be staggered to make sure students did not become overloaded. more... | |
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| | "The Toxic Race to Perfection is Damaging Our Teens" - Psychology Today, October 22, 2011 | |
| | | | Perfectionism Undercuts the Core Ingredients Needed for Success - The race to perfection is having a toxic impact on this generation and therefore our future. more... | |
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| | "Parents can help teens manage overscheduling stress" - USA TODAY, October 10, 2011 | |
| | | | Lauren Biglow, a college freshman, once was one of those high school students with crazy, stressful schedules — high-level academics mixed with sports, clubs, community service, and way too little sleep, real food or unstructured fun. more... | |
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| | "It's 3 a.m. Is your student asleep yet?" - Letter Home, Fall 2011 | |
| | | | Catching your z's can seem overrated when school is demanding, your body is young, and you're newly on your own. Students, researchers, and healthcare providers grapple with the whys and hows of sleep. more... | |
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| | "Seven arrested in SAT cheating scandal in New York" - Los Angeles Times, Septermber 27, 2011 | |
| | | | He was allegedly paid to take college entrance exams for six students from a top-rated Long Island high school, and now Sam Eshaghoff, 19, is facing criminal charges that carry a sentence of up to four years in jail. more... | |
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| | "What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?" - New York Times, Septermber 14, 2011 | |
| | | | Dominic Randolph can seem a little out of place at Riverdale Country School — which is odd, because he’s the headmaster. Riverdale is one of New York City’s most prestigious private schools, with a 104-year-old campus that looks down grandly on Van Cortlandt Park from the top of a steep hill in the richest part of the Bronx. more... | |
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| | "Can success be summed up in an ACT score?" - Chicago Tribune, September 14, 2011 | |
| | | | Psychologist Madeline Levine once tried to give a lecture about parenting the average child. Nobody showed up. When she told this story the other night to an auditorium packed with moms and dads at Glen Ellyn's Glenbard South High School, the crowd broke into nervous titters. Parents who can't face the fact that their kids are average? How ridiculous! more... | |
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| | "Denise Pope of Stanford University: What Families need to know and can do about Student Stress"
(podcast) Compass Education, September 1, 2011 | |
| | | | …If you’re wondering what does stress have to do with education, I’ll sum it up . . . A great deal. Especially in my consulting practice with families, the stress among college-bound students and their parents is palpable. I follow the research on student stress so that I can know best how to support families without adding to the stress they are already experiencing. more... | |
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| | "Should Kids Get Summer Homework?" - Greatschools.org, published circa July 2011 | |
| | | | Pointless busywork or essential academic upkeep? The experts weigh in on the hot debate. more... | |
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| | "The Dark Side of Acing the Tests" - Huffington Post, June 30, 2011 | |
| | | | Bruner's primary concern was that children are being pressed to do too much too soon. The negative effects of early academic work are several fold, he stated. Young children are too often asked to do things for which they are developmentally unready. This leads to frustration, stress and a potential aversion to learning. more... | |
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| | "What Does ‘Successful’ Look Like?" - Gazebo News, March 16th, 2011 | |
| | | | What is the definition of success? This is the question that Drs. Madeline Levine and Denise Pope asked parents at the beginning of their “Challenge Success” presentation at Gorton Community Center last Monday. more... | |
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| | "Race to Nowhere: One Principals Response" - Connected Principals, March 7, 2011 | |
| | | | Thursday evening, our school (St. Gregory College Prep, Tucson, AZ) hosted a screening of the documentary film Race to Nowhere and a panel discussion afterwards. Here I am offering my own first reactions to the film; in subsequent posts I intend to share some of our panelists’ responses and explore the suggestions from the film’s website, End the Race. more... | |
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| | "The Teen Brain: Still Under Construction" - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Published circa 2011 | |
| | | | The research has turned up some surprises, among them the discovery of striking changes taking place during the teen years. These finds have altered long-held assumptions about the timing of the brain maturation. more... | |
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| | "Amy Chua's 'Tiger Mother' style has flaws" - SF Chronicle, January 24, 2011 | |
| | | | Amy Chua's frightening new book, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," has created quite a media buzz. It is easy to imagine an endless stream of either kudos or invectives directed at Chua for her provocative ideas about child rearing, which include not only humiliation (she actually calls her daughter "garbage" when she is disrespectful), but also punitive threats, oppressive rules and restrictions of all sorts. But as a clinical psychologist, my question is: What does the research on child development show about the way that parenting styles affect children? more... | |
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| | "A Visit with Dr. Madeline Levine" - Santa Barbara Middle School Teen Press, January 16, 2011 | |
| | | | Is it the race or is it the nowhere?" At the after party and discussion, Emily and Marlon ask adolescent psychologist, Madeline Levine for her advice on how they should deal with the race. more... | |
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| | "Effort to Restore Children’s Play Gains Momentum" - New York Times, January 5, 2011 | |
| | | | Sarah Wilson was speaking proudly the other day when she declared: My house is a little messy. Ms. Wilson lives in Stroudsburg, Pa., a small town in the Poconos. Many days, her home is strewn with dress-up clothes, art supplies and other artifacts from playtime with her two small children, Benjamin, 6, and Laura, 3. more... | |
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| | "A Box? Or a Spaceship? What Makes Kids Creative" - Wall Street Journal, December 15, 2010 | |
| | | | When art teacher Kandy Dea recently assigned fourth-graders in her Walnut, Iowa, classroom to create a board game to play with a friend, she was shocked by one little boy's response: He froze. more... | |
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| | "Change the Pace of the School Day" - New York Times, December 12, 2010 | |
| | | | Schools tend to blame parents for putting too much pressure on kids, parents tend to blame the schools, and students are often left out of the dialogue altogether. At Challenge Success, the project I co-founded with Madeline Levine and Jim Lobdell at the Stanford University School of Education, we aim to bring these groups together to facilitate changes in families and schools. more... | |
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| | "Student Stress, Competition and the Educational - Race to Nowhere" - NPR On-Point Radio, December 14, 2010 | |
| | | | Test-heavy, tough love education is “in” – it’s urgent and necessary for America to stay competitive, we’re told. more... | |
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| | "Stress and the High School Student" - New York Times, December 12, 2010 | |
| | | | A new documentary, "Race to Nowhere," looks at the pressures being put on high school students to build their résumés with Advance Placement classes and athletic accomplishments to improve their chances of acceptance at elite colleges and universities. more... | |
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| | "Parents Embrace Documentary on Pressures of School" - New York Times, December 8, 2010 | |
| | | | It isn’t often that a third of a movie audience sticks around to discuss its message, but that is the effect of “Race to Nowhere,” a look at the downside of childhoods spent on résumé-building. more... | |
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| | "To those of you that stay up until 4 a.m. studying for finals…" - Stanford Review, December 2, 2010 | |
| | | | As I was mid-asleep last night enjoying my only escape from the tedious and stressful marathon that is studying for finals, I was jolted awake by the piercing screams of agonizing students all across campus that are a tradition to the midnight hour around this time each quarter. Primal scream. Oh yes, it’s dead week. Anything but dead. more... | |
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| | "The 4.0 Career Is Coming… Are You Ready?" - Huffington Post, November 17, 2010 | |
| | | | Even in the midst of our economic disaster that's hitting all but the wealthiest Americans, a transformation is continuing within people's orientation to work. more... | |
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| | "The Importance of Sleep in College" - YouTube, November 15, 2010 | |
| | | | A short informational video I did as part of an outreach project for a psychology class at UC Berkeley. more... | |
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| | "Teen Missteps Pave Way for Success, ‘Blessing’ Author Says" - Jweekly.com, October 21, 2010 | |
| | | | In the prevailing pressure-cooker society, in which parents and educators are creating enormous stress in adolescents by pushing them to succeed socially and academically, Dr. Wendy Mogel proudly belongs to the counterculture. more... | |
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| | "Panel of educators share their reactions to 'Waiting for Superman'" - Stanford, CA, October 15, 2010 | |
| | | | School of Education faculty, students, and friends gathered at Cubberley Auditorium to hear a panel discussion about the new film. more... | |
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| | "Waiting for Superman: Don't look for easy answers the film implies, panel of educators says"
Stanford Report, October 6, 2010 | |
| | | | Stanford screens a controversial film – and a panel of educators suggests more nuanced answers for a complex educational plight. Most teachers are "hardworking and effective," but "a small portion of our teachers are actually harming kids." more... | |
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