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SOS Research in the News!
Denise Pope talks about "Life in the Fast Lane" in the Los Altos Town Crier (Wednesday Feb. 7, 2007)
Denise Pope and Marilee Jones discuss SOS in The Wall Street Journal
(Friday, January 19, 2007: "Schools turn down the heat on homework")
Denise Pope and Richard Simon report on the latest SOS findings in the April 2005 edition of Educational Leadership Magazine.
Denise Pope and Mollie Galloway answer questions about the SOS Project in the cover story of The Palo Alto Weekly (Wednesday March 30, 2005).
Books To Read
On School/Community Change:
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Denise Pope
Doing School : How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students
Madeline Levine
The Price of Privilege
Deborah Stipek
Motivated Minds: Raising Children to Love Learning
Katherine Simon
Moral Questions in the Classroom: How to Get Kids to Think Deeply About Real Life and Their Schoolwork
William Damon
The Youth Charter: How Communities Can Work Together
to Raise Standards for All Our Children
Deborah Meier
In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning
in an Era of Testing and Standardization
Nel Noddings
The Challenge to Care in School: An Alternative Approach to Education
Ted Sizer
Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High School
Thomas Toch
High Schools on a Human Scale
Sam Intrator
Tuned in and Fired Up: How Teaching Can Inspire Real Learning in the Classroom
Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish
The Case Against Homework |
On Parenting/Mental Health
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Wendy Mogel
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
Alvin Rosenfeld
The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap
David Elkind
The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon
Douglas Daher
And the Passenger was Death: The Drama and Trauma of Losing a Child
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On College/Vocational Choices
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Marilee Jones and Ken Ginsburg
Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College Admissions and Beyond
John Krumboltz
Luck Is No Accident: Making the Most of Your Life and Career
Lloyd Thacker
College Unranked: Affirming Educational Values in College Admissions
Loren Pope
Colleges That Change Lives
Brian Mahar
Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition
Jay Mathews
Harvard Schmarvard: Getting Beyond the Ivy League to the College That is Best for You
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