Stop Homework

HOMEWORK
Ben­nett, Sara and Kalish, Nancy, The Case Against Home­work: How Home­work is Hur­ing Chil­dren and What Par­ents Can Do About It, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007

Cooper, Har­ris, The Bat­tle Over Home­work: Com­mon Ground for Admin­is­tra­tors, Teach­ers, and Par­ents, Thou­sand Oaks, Calif: Cor­win Press 2006

Encounter Mag­a­zine: The Home­work Issue, Win­ter 2007, avail­able from great​-ideas​.org

Good­man, Vera, Sim­ply Too Much Home­work! What Can We Do?, Cal­gary: Read­ing Wings, 2007

Kohn, Alfie, The Home­work Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing, New York: Da Capo Press, 2006

Kralovec, Etta and Buell, John, The End of Home­work: How Home­work Dis­rupts Fam­i­lies, Over­bur­dens Chil­dren, and Lim­its Learn­ing, Boston: Bea­con Press, 2006

Stop Home­work

Toronto, Canada’s, fam­ily friendly home­work policy

Vat­terott, Cathy, Rethink­ing Home­work: Best Prac­tices that Sup­port Diverse Needs, ACSD, 2009

PLAY
Almon Joan and Miller, Edward, Cri­sis in the Kinder­garten: Why Chil­dren Need to Play in School (Report from the Alliance for Childhood)

Brown, Stu­art and Vaughan, Christo­pher, Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imag­i­na­tion, and Invig­o­rates the Soul, New York: Avery, 2009

Gins­burg, Ken­neth R. and the Com­mit­tee on Com­mu­ni­ca­tions
and the Com­mit­tee on Psy­choso­cial Aspects of Child and Fam­ily Health, The Impor­tance of Play in Pro­mot­ing Healthy Child Devel­op­ment and Main­tain­ing Strong Parent-Child Bonds (Report from the Amer­i­can Acad­emy of Pedi­atrics, 2006)

RECESS
Bar­ros, Romina M. , Ellen J. Sil­ver and Ruth E. K. Stein, School Recess and Group Class­room Behav­ior (Pedi­atrics, 2009).

Dyson, Ben, and Dyson, Lisa, Recess Should not be Optional Pro­gram, The Com­mer­cial Appeal, Jan­u­ary 21, 2009,

Ohan­ian, Susan, What Hap­pened to Recess and Why are our Chil­dren Strug­gling in Kinder­garten, New York: McGraw Hill, 2002

SLEEP
National Sleep Foundation

STRESS
Benson-Henry Insti­tute for Mind Body Med­i­cine, Edu­ca­tion Initiative

Chal­lenge Suc­cess (an expanded ver­sion of the Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity School of Edu­ca­tion Stressed Out Stu­dent Project)

Lis­ton, C., B. S. McEwen and B. J. Caseya, Psy­choso­cial stress reversibly dis­rupts pre­frontal pro­cess­ing and atten­tional control

Need­ham High School Stress Reduc­tion Committee

TESTING
Fair Test: The National Cen­ter for Fair and Open Testing

MISCELLANEOUS
Atwell, Nan­cie, In the Mid­dle: New Under­stand­ings About Writ­ing, Read­ing, and Learn­ing, Portsmouth, New Hamp­shire: Boyn­ton, 1998

Cohen-Sandler, Roni, Stressed-out Girls : Help­ing Them Thrive in the Age of Pres­sure, New York: Viking, 2005

Crain, William, Rethink­ing Child­hood: Let­ting Chil­dren be Chil­dren in our Achievement-Oriented Soci­ety, New York: Times Books 2003

The Edu­ca­tion Conservancy

Doherty, William, Over­sched­uled Kids, Under­con­nected Fam­i­lies: The Research Evi­dence (a sum­mary of the find­ings in San­dra L. Hof­ferth, “Changes in Amer­i­can Children’s Time, 1981 – 1997,” Uni­ver­sity of Michigan’s Insti­tute for Social Research, Cen­ter Sur­vey, Jan­u­ary, 1999.)

Dweck, Carol, Mind­set: The New Psy­chol­ogy of Suc­cess, New York: Bal­lan­tine, 2007

Elkind, David, The Hur­ried Child – 25th Anniver­sary Edi­tion, New York: Da Capo Press, 2006

Hon­ore, Carl, Under Pres­sure: Res­cu­ing Our Chil­dren from the Cul­ture of Hyper-Parenting, New York: Harper Collins, 2008

Levine, Made­line, The Price of Priv­i­lege: How Parental Pres­sure and Mate­r­ial Advan­tage are Cre­at­ing a Gen­er­a­tion of Dis­con­nected and Unhappy Kids, Harper Paper­backs, 2008

Lob­dell, Jim, Pos­i­tive Sports Par­ent­ing: How Second-Goal Par­ents Raise Win­ners in Life Through Sports, Por­tola Val­ley, CA: Bal­ance Sports Pub­lish­ing, 2008

Lock­hart, Paul, A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fas­ci­nat­ing and Imag­i­na­tive Art Form, New York: Belle­vue Lit­er­ary Press, 2009

Louv, Richard, Last Child in the Woods: Sav­ing Our Chil­dren from Nature-Deficit Dis­or­der, Chapel Hill, North Car­olina: Algo­nquin Books, 2006

Med­ina, John, Brain Rules: 12 Prin­ci­ples for Sur­viv­ing and Thriv­ing at Work, Home, and School, Seat­tle, WA: Pear Press, 2009

Mer­cogliano, Chris, In Defense of Child­hood: Pro­tect­ing Kids’ Inner Wild­ness, Boston: Bea­con Press, 2007

Miller, Don­a­lyn, and Ander­son, Jeff, The Book Whis­perer: Awak­en­ing the Inner Reader in Every Child, San Fran­cisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009

Mogel, Wendy, The Bless­ing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jew­ish Teach­ings to Raise Self-Reliant Chil­dren, New York: Scrib­ner, 2008

Pink, Daniel, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, New York: River­head Trade, 2006

Pope, Denise Clark, Doing School : How We Are Cre­at­ing a Gen­er­a­tion of Stressed-Out, Mate­ri­al­is­tic, and Mise­d­u­cated Stu­dents, New Haven, Conn.: Yale Uni­ver­sity Press, 2001

Pope, Loren, Col­leges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Col­leges, New York: Pen­guin Books, 2006

Race to Nowhere (doc­u­men­tary film)

Robin­son, Alexan­dra, The Over­achiev­ers: The Secret Lives of Dri­ven Kids, New York: Hype­r­ion, 2007

Robin­son, Sir Ken, The Ele­ment: How Find­ing Your Pas­sion Changes Every­thing, New York: Viking, 2009

Ske­nazy, Lenore, Free-Range Kids: Giv­ing Our Chil­dren the Free­dom We Had With­out Going Nuts with Worry, New Jer­sey: Jossey-Bass, 2009

Stein­berg, Jacques, The Gate­keep­ers: Inside the Admis­sions Process of a Pre­mier Col­lege, New York: Pen­guin, 2003

Thomp­son, Michael and Baker, Teresa, The Pres­sured Child : Help­ing Your Child Find Suc­cess in School and Life, New York: Bal­lan­tine, 2004

Tyre, Peg, The Trou­ble with Boys: A Sur­pris­ing Report Card on Our Sons, Their Prob­lems at School, and What Par­ents and Edu­ca­tors Should Do, New York: Crown, 2008

Wag­ner, Tony, The Global Achieve­ment Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Sur­vival Skills Our Chil­dren Need – And What We Can Do About It, New York: Basic Books, 2008

White, Kristin M, The Com­plete Guide to the Gap Year: The Best Things to Do Between High School and Col­lege, San Fran­cisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009