Reprint from NPR Francesco Zorzi for NPR On New Year’s Eve, back in 2012, Savannah Eason retreated into her bedroom and picked up a pair of scissors. “I was holding them up to my palm as if to cut myself,” she says. “Clearly what was happening was I needed someone to do something.” Her dad managed to wrestle the scissors from her hands, but that night it had become clear she needed help. “It was really scary,” she recalls. “I was sobbing the whole time.” Savannah was in high school at the time. She says the pressure she felt to succeed — to aim highRead More →

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This is a reprint from The Daily Pause by Hal Runkel: “Our numbers-driven society perpetuates a pressure on our kids to perform. High-stakes testing has taken the place of meaningful teaching and learning. College rankings and endowments are also predicated on numbers…All of which adds up to an education system focused on competition, performance and rankings.” (Vicki H. Abeles) Getting into the “right” college The world has always been involved in some kind of collective insanity, but one kind seems to be gripping us all: the pressure to get into the “right” college. I’ve counseled several New York families who were driven by this pressure,Read More →

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