Right now in paperback, the New York Instances bestseller from Race to Nowhere director Vicki Abeles about how our schools can revolutionize learning, prioritize children’s wellness, and re-envision achievement for a lifetime.

Competition to Nowhere, Vicki Abeles’s groundbreaking documentary about our educational system, tapped right into a popular problem in our nation’s institutions: From high school to kindergarten, a whole era of American students has been pressured to perform in ways that produce them less about Beyond Measure: Rescuing an Overscheduled, Overtested, Underestimated Generation intellectually flexible, creative, and responsive to a changing world. Vicki brought house how, as students race against each other to have continuously higher levels, better test scores, and more AP programs than their classmates, they are damaging their very own mental and physical health.

Now in the brand new York Instances bestseller Beyond Measure, Vicki continues this all-important conversation, seeking out success tales to inspire and instruct those who find themselves wanting to create transformation. We see types of teachers who’ve slice the workload in two and seen ratings rise; parents who have used the pressure off of their kids and then find their motivation and abilities rise on their own; schools which have instituted afterwards start times so the kids are receiving the sleep they need able to learn more efficiently.

Everyone is aware the educational program is broken, and Beyond Measure reveals an individual, unique, on-the-ground perspective. From limiting the number of AP programs a college will consider to getting rid of the competitive have to “do more than the next child” and shifting emphasis in the admissions process to essay choices over test ratings. “With both heart and smarts, Vicki Abeles showcases the courageous communities that are rejecting the childhood rat race and reclaiming health and learning (Maria Shriver).” The effect will help college students succeed, not only on the competition to college-but forever.