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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Beyond measure
    sub title: rescuing an overscheduled, overtested, underestimated generation
  name:
    name part: Abeles, Vicki
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rubinstein, Grace
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 287 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "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"--
  table of 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.
  note: Vicki Abeles with Grace Rubinstein.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Educational change
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Overpressure (Education)
  subject:
    topic: Motivation in education
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Academic achievement
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Students
    topic: Academic workload
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Academic achievement
  subject:
    topic: Educational change
  subject:
    topic: Motivation in education
  subject:
    topic: Overpressure (Education)
  subject:
    topic: Students
    topic: Academic workload
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: LA217.2 .A24 2015
  classification: 370.973
  identifier: 9781451699234
  identifier: 1451699239
  identifier: 9781451699258
  identifier: 9781451699241 (trade paperback)
  identifier: 1451699247 (trade paperback)
  identifier: 2015022235
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150806
    record change date: 20170928104752.0
    record identifier: in00003596601
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng