Parents, as your kids head back to school, consider investing 50 minutes listening to this interview with Denise Pope (senior lecturer at the Stanford University School of Education and co-founder of Challenge Success) about how to raise well-balanced kids who are engaged in their learning. If you’d prefer the bullet-point version, here are Challenge Success’s “Top Ten Back-to-School Tips to Help Your Child Thrive.”

And here’s a past post of mine, “Back to school: greatest hits edition,” with links to advice for parents, high school students, and college students.