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Beyond measure : rescuing an overscheduled, overtested, underestimated generation, Vicki Abeles with Grace Rubenstein
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- Summary
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- "From the director of Race to Nowhere, the popular 2010 documentary on our education system that has become a long-running grassroots phenomenon, and a new film, Beyond Measure, comes a groundbreaking book for parents, students, and educators on how to revolutionize learning, prioritize children's health, and re-envision success for a lifetime. From kindergarteners to high-schoolers, millions of American students are being pressured to perform in ways that make them less intellectually flexible, creative, and responsive to today's world. In Race to Nowhere, Vicki Abeles identified a widespread problem in our nation's schools: as students race against each other to have constantly higher grades, better test scores, and more AP courses than their classmates, they are irreparably damaging their mental and physical health. Now Abeles taps into this same grassroots community across the nation to find the solutions in Beyond Measure, which publishes simultaneously with the release of her new documentary. Pulling from powerful anecdotes and convincing new research, Abeles presents inspirational, quantifiable success stories and shows how anyone--students, parents, and educators--can effect change. Teachers who cut students' workload see scores rise; kids discover their own motivation once parents relieve the pressure to perform; schools that institute later start times have well-rested students who are able to learn more efficiently; and schools that emphasize depth over test prep find students more attentive, inventive, and ready to thrive. It's no secret that our education system is broken, and Beyond Measure inspires parents, educators, and students to take practical steps to fix it--starting today. In so doing, it empowers all of us to redefine learning and success, and to discover the true, untapped potential awaiting our children, not just in college, but in life"--
- "From the director of Race to Nowhere comes a groundbreaking book for parents, students, and educators on how to revolutionize learning, prioritize children's health, and re-envision success for a lifetime"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 287 pages
- Contents
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- Prologue: Out of nowhere
- Sicker, not smarter
- It's about time
- Homework: take back our nights
- Testing: learning beyond the bubble
- College admissions: break free from the frenzy
- Teaching and learning: this way up
- First, be well!
- Action: how you can replace the race to nowhere
- Epilogue
- Isbn
- 9781451699234
- Label
- Beyond measure : rescuing an overscheduled, overtested, underestimated generation
- Title
- Beyond measure
- Title remainder
- rescuing an overscheduled, overtested, underestimated generation
- Statement of responsibility
- Vicki Abeles with Grace Rubenstein
- Subject
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- trueEducational change -- United States
- trueEducational reform
- Motivation in education
- trueMotivation in education
- Motivation in education -- United States
- Overpressure (Education)
- Overpressure (Education)
- trueStudent achievement
- trueStudents -- Academic workload
- Students -- Academic workload
- Students -- Academic workload -- United States
- United States
- trueUnited States -- Social life and customs
- trueeducational innovations
- truePressure
- Academic achievement
- Academic achievement -- United States
- Educational change
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "From the director of Race to Nowhere, the popular 2010 documentary on our education system that has become a long-running grassroots phenomenon, and a new film, Beyond Measure, comes a groundbreaking book for parents, students, and educators on how to revolutionize learning, prioritize children's health, and re-envision success for a lifetime. From kindergarteners to high-schoolers, millions of American students are being pressured to perform in ways that make them less intellectually flexible, creative, and responsive to today's world. In Race to Nowhere, Vicki Abeles identified a widespread problem in our nation's schools: as students race against each other to have constantly higher grades, better test scores, and more AP courses than their classmates, they are irreparably damaging their mental and physical health. Now Abeles taps into this same grassroots community across the nation to find the solutions in Beyond Measure, which publishes simultaneously with the release of her new documentary. Pulling from powerful anecdotes and convincing new research, Abeles presents inspirational, quantifiable success stories and shows how anyone--students, parents, and educators--can effect change. Teachers who cut students' workload see scores rise; kids discover their own motivation once parents relieve the pressure to perform; schools that institute later start times have well-rested students who are able to learn more efficiently; and schools that emphasize depth over test prep find students more attentive, inventive, and ready to thrive. It's no secret that our education system is broken, and Beyond Measure inspires parents, educators, and students to take practical steps to fix it--starting today. In so doing, it empowers all of us to redefine learning and success, and to discover the true, untapped potential awaiting our children, not just in college, but in life"--
- "From the director of Race to Nowhere comes a groundbreaking book for parents, students, and educators on how to revolutionize learning, prioritize children's health, and re-envision success for a lifetime"--
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- 10443333
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- Abeles, Vicki
- Dewey number
- 370.973
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- 1979-
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- Rubenstein, Grace
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- Educational change
- Overpressure (Education)
- Motivation in education
- Academic achievement
- Students
- Academic achievement
- Educational change
- Motivation in education
- Overpressure (Education)
- Students
- United States
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- rescuing an overscheduled, overtested, underestimated generation
- Label
- Beyond measure : rescuing an overscheduled, overtested, underestimated generation, Vicki Abeles with Grace Rubenstein
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-278) and index
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- Contents
- Prologue: Out of nowhere -- Sicker, not smarter -- It's about time -- Homework: take back our nights -- Testing: learning beyond the bubble -- College admissions: break free from the frenzy -- Teaching and learning: this way up -- First, be well! -- Action: how you can replace the race to nowhere -- Epilogue
- Control code
- 1412608
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451699234
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015022235
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781451699234
- (OCoLC)916684190
- Label
- Beyond measure : rescuing an overscheduled, overtested, underestimated generation, Vicki Abeles with Grace Rubenstein
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-278) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: Out of nowhere -- Sicker, not smarter -- It's about time -- Homework: take back our nights -- Testing: learning beyond the bubble -- College admissions: break free from the frenzy -- Teaching and learning: this way up -- First, be well! -- Action: how you can replace the race to nowhere -- Epilogue
- Control code
- 1412608
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451699234
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015022235
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781451699234
- (OCoLC)916684190
Subject
- trueEducational change -- United States
- trueEducational reform
- Motivation in education
- trueMotivation in education
- Motivation in education -- United States
- Overpressure (Education)
- Overpressure (Education)
- trueStudent achievement
- trueStudents -- Academic workload
- Students -- Academic workload
- Students -- Academic workload -- United States
- United States
- trueUnited States -- Social life and customs
- trueeducational innovations
- truePressure
- Academic achievement
- Academic achievement -- United States
- Educational change
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