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Race to Nowhere Featured on NPR On Point

Live this morning at 11 ET on On Point with Tom Ashbrook. Joining director, Vicki Abeles, will be Dr. Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford University and co-founder of Challenge Success and Yong Zhao, author of Catching Up or Leading the Way and a professor at Michigan State University.

Oprah Radio: The Derrick Ashong Experience

Oprah Radio

Oprah Radio host Dr. Mehmet Oz talks with experts Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, author Sara Bennett and filmmaker Vicki Abeles about why children need time to play every day. Plus, they talk about about how effective homework is and about why children cheat.

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Print

Boston Globe Coverage

Parents Embrace Documentary on Pressures of School

Thanks to everyone for taking the lead in bringing the film to your community. Shining a light on the issues the film raises helps create the movement our youth and educators need.

Washington Post Review: 'Race to Nowhere' film highlights stress students face in high-pressure academics

"A growing grass-roots phenomenon" — Donna St. George, Washington Post

The New York Times: The Overscheduled Child

Reaches out to children hounded by a confluence of circumstances.

Los Angeles Times: Movie Reviews

Collecting the testimony of those who have been through the stress machine and those who have observed it firsthand, the documentary is a dire warning and solid piece of advocacy journalism.

NY Times Video Op-ed: Advanced Placement