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"Rising Concerns Over Plagiarism" - KCBS Radio, August 3, 2010 |
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Dr. Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford University’s School of Education, explains how the digital age makes it easier for students to plagiarize. more... |
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"Playtime Is Over" - New York Times, March 26, 2010 |
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Written by Challenge Success Research and Policy Advisor David Elkind. RECESS is no longer child’s play. Schools around the country, concerned about bullying and arguments over the use of the equipment, are increasingly hiring “recess coaches” to oversee students’ free time. more... |
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"Success with Less Stress" - Health and Learning, December 2009/January 2010 |
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Students with high grade point averages often carry an unhealthy load of stress. How can schools help? more... |
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"Beyond Doing School: From ‘Stressed-out’ to ‘Engaged in Learning’" - Education Canada Winter 2009-2010 |
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Denise Pope, Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University School of Education, shares insights and approaches developed by the Challenge Success Initiative, a research and intervention project she co-founded in 2004 to address the widespread disengagement and poor physical and mental health issues facing secondary students in the U.S. more... |
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"Glimmers of change in stress-filled schools?" - Palo Alto Online, September 24, 2009 |
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When she convened her first student stress conference six years ago, Stanford lecturer Denise Clark Pope never imagined the annual event would grow to huge proportions. more... |
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"winners circle: competitive friends" - teenVOGUE, July 9, 2009 |
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Sometimes, adolescents flourish under the pressure of academic pressure to get named salutatorian or valedictorian, but sometimes they don't, experts say. more... |
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"Newark Starts a Summer School Aimed at Advanced Placement" - New York Times, July 7, 2009 |
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Advanced Placement classes do not begin at Science Park High School until September, but Cristiana De Oliveira will spend many a summer day sitting behind a desk in A.P. calculus for five hours rather than lounging by a swimming pool. more... |
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"Teens under stress in top college competition" - Baltimore Sun, April 12, 2009 |
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Straight-A's, perfect SATs sometimes won't cut it. more... |
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"Challenge Success Welcomes New Program Director" - Challenge Success, March 19, 2009 |
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Challenge Success, a Stanford based program championing a broader vision of success for youth, is pleased to announce Maureen Brown as Program Director. more... |
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"In Praise of the Average Student" - Minneapolis - St. Paul Star Tribune, August 29, 2008 |
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Tony Taylor returned to his college classes last Monday and, if all goes as planned, he'll graduate in the spring. It's been a challenging road for Taylor, 21, who carries a full load of 12 credits, works 38 hours a week and pulls in a solid B grade-point-average. more... |
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"Too-Busy Teens Feel Health Toll" - Washington Post, July 15, 2008 |
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For Jessica Huey, the circumstances preceding the episodes she calls her "nervous breakdowns" were always the same: She was exhausted, it was 1 a.m. and she still faced a mountain of homework... more... |
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"Camp Codependence" - New York Times, July 31, 2008 |
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I’m sure we all read, with equal parts disgust and delectation, The Times’ story last week on affluent parents who just can’t let go when their children abandon them for sleep-away camp. more... |
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"Less Homework, More Yoga, From a Principal Who Hates Stress" - New York Times, Oct. 29, 2007 |
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It was 6:30 p.m. The lights were still on at Needham High School, here in the affluent Boston suburbs. Paul Richards, the principal, was meeting with the Stress Reduction Committee. more... |
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"Busy Students Get a New Required Course: Lunch" - New York Times, May 24, 2008 |
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High school students in this well-to-do Westchester suburb pile on four, five, even six Advanced Placement classes to keep up with their friends. They track their grade-point averages to multiple decimal places and have longer résumés than their parents. more... |
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"Crash Course" - Washington Post, Nov. 4, 2007 |
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Experts at Stanford University have created a program to help stressed-out students gain perspective -- before they collapse. more... |
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"Everybody Does It, Academic Cheating..." - San Francisco Chronicle, Sep. 9, 2007 |
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Academic cheating is at an all-time high. Can anything be done to stop it? more... |
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"Road to stress is paved with good parental intentions" - USA Today, Aug. 16, 2007 |
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McKinzie Schultz has had a busy summer. Shortly after school ended in June, the 12-year-old attended a sailing camp near her home in Crofton, Md. Then there was the week-long adventure camp, followed by softball camp and Girl Scouts camp. more... |
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