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
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
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
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