Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, doesn’t just want to refute the notion that the most selective colleges provide better educations; as the author of “Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students” and a founder at challengesuccess.org, she also believes that our society has become too focused on grades, test scores and performance to the detriment of our kids’ development.
For parents who would like to learn what you can do to combat these pressures for your own kids, check out challengesuccess.org’s parenting guidelines here.