Race to Nowhere Resource Guide

Web Resources:

• www.greatschools.org/students/homework-help/slideshows/grade-by-grade-homework-guidelines How Much Homework is Too Much? Grade-by-grade Guidelines
• The Secret To Raising Smart Kids, The Scientific Mind
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U Changing Education Paradigms
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M4tdMsg3ts Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c Kids' Checking Out Past Technologies
• www.casacolumbia.org The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
• www.independentcurriculum.org/ Independent Curriculum Group
• www.commonsensemedia.org Common Sense Media
• www.psparents.net/Student_Stress.htm Public Schools' Parents' Network
• today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24260521/ns/today-parenting/ Is a "Gap Year" Before College a Good Idea?
• www.mrmacnology.com/3-as-of-awesome 21st Century Learning
• mrwejr.edublogs.org/2010/06/02/death-of-an-awards-ceremony Death of an Awards Ceremony, by Chris Wejr
• www.joebower.org/2011/01/others-failure.html For the Love of Learning
• www.education4real.com Promoting Real Learning and Creativity Around the World

Books:

• Five Minds for the Future, by Howard Gardner
• The Price of Privilege, by Madeline Levine, PhD Don't Miss Madeline Levine Speaking at LEAD's March 15 Program
• Blessings of a Skinned Knee, by Wendy Mogel, PhD
• Blessings of a B Minus, by Wendy Mogel, Phd
• Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students, by Denise Clark Pope, PhD Don't Miss Denise Pope Speaking at LEAD's March 15 Program
• Stressed – Out Girls: Helping Them Thrive in the Age of Pressure, by Roni Cohen-Sandler, PhD
• Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys, by Dan Kindlon, PhD and Michael Thompson, PhD Michael Thompson was LEAD's Keynote Speaker at Parent University 2009
• The Pressured Child: Freeing Our Kids from Performance Overdrive and Helping Them Find Success in School and Life, by Michael Thompson, PhD Keynote Speaker at LEAD's Parent University 2009
• The Bully, The Bullied, and The Bystander, by Barbara Coloroso Keynote Speaker at LEAD's Parent University 2010
• Keeping Adolescence Healthy, by Aaron White, PhD