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You are a Creative Genius, Polly. Wow. Yes, quite something to contemplate. Race to Nowhere is
about what it's like for us right now living under the influence of the No Child Left Behind law, and
if we stay on the path we are on, where we will most likely end up. Please note it takes 3-5 business
days to get your streaming access set up. Sunday’s New York Times carried an article by Vicki
Abeles. Elementary school children simply do not benefit from homework. Your photos are so vivid
and expressive and inspiring and artistic and alive. Most homework does not increase learning, raise
scores or prepare students for the future. I feel such gratitude for the beautiful way in which you
express God. Thank you so much for this thoughtful, informative and articulate book review, Polly.
Within this culture, school becomes less about learning and growing than the creation of an idealized
self—all good grades, great test scores, and community service—intended to optimally impress
college recruiters. One AP math teacher noted that when he cut the homework load on his class,
grades shot up. If you like what we do, please consider subscribing to our Patreon or making a
donation. Beautiful and profoundly perfect for pandemic season, your poem empowers hope for
what’s next. They don't need to be stressed out adults at age 10. Kids, teachers, parents, families,
school administrators, local communities, state and national governments. It makes so much sense
and would have saved me a lot of self criticism. Neat! Love the black and white contrasts enhanced
by the light. How blessed we are to have someone like you on this Earth. Thank you for your
spiritual calm, support for each of us, uninhibited creativity, and amazing paintings. We as a district
must take this research seriously and create expectations for our children’s education that are results-
oriented, not opinion-oriented, and homework is not part of that picture in elementary school. Thank
you for bringing such beauty into my every day. In between the lines I read that our only true peace
is in pleasing Our Creator. Harris Cooper, professor of neuroscience and psychology at. I found it
quite enriching and resonate with those true answers. I wanted you to know that I found the time I
spent on your blog to be relaxing, refreshing, inspiring, and totally enjoyable. I cherish the healing
thoughts therein very much, and they are very helpful. The connection to Ravitch actually helped me
further understand her outlook. I love this poem! Letting our true, authentic self come forth. But all
of us—parents and students—owe it to ourselves to do the best we honestly can. Putting the art of
poetry, photography and painting into your hands is God’s gift to us who get to read it and see it.
Thanks. These thoughts you shared are a keeper for me to revisit when in need.
Your blog is full of the wonderful, multilayered colors and textures that you play with, and share so
unselfishly with the world. I found it quite enriching and resonate with those true answers. Never
mind the headaches she is getting every day due to the stress from the pressure to perform. The truth
is, news costs money to produce, and we are proud that we have never put our stories behind an
expensive paywall. The educational researcher had never heard that homework contributed to kids
dropping out. The idea of the “and” factor is startling because of the problems that it presents. Just a
wonderland of possibilities and ideas and the materials to explore and discover. When students came
back with a primary concept learned, it freed up classroom time for lab work, experiments and other
projects, Sams says. The 2010 film Race to Nowhere tells the stories of students who say they are
stressed out by the amount of homework they receive and the pressure on them to succeed. (Race to
Nowhere) The practice worsens economic inequalities, she says. I’m new to your site and I love
today’s post about being grateful. I am so grateful for your generous sharing of ideas across so many
different fields. Some parents and educators have launched a crusade to abolish the practice in an
effort to relieve stress, reclaim childhood and even the playing field for students. After reading Diane
Ravitch and analyzing her critique on the 1983 Nation at Risk report and NCLB legislation, I was
fascinated when the film mentioned these important policies. The passion and joy of color in your
paintings is marvelous. They lose sleep that is important to everyone, but especially to growing
adolescents, they starve themselves to help stay away and they suffer headaches, stomachaches and
other issues. It was a wonderful mix of beauty, humor, and thoughtfulness. The sad truth is that their
time and attention are wasted. Abeles wanted to use this film to challenge the traditional notion of
how schools function, the role of the family in education and to show how the emphasis on creating
perfect students detracts from creating well-rounded citizens, and strays away from socializing the
“whole” child. It is a conviction, stark and unforgiving, that one’s children will either (1) get into
Harvard or (2) spend their lives working for Walmart” (Mitchell). Thank you for your spiritual calm,
support for each of us, uninhibited creativity, and amazing paintings. TG2: Student Evaluations of
Teaching in Higher Education Fail Everyone. But others want to flip some long-held beliefs about
homework, like that it needs to be done at home. I appreciate you!! Thank you Polly for this article
on supply. Helen Frankenthaler’s works were interesting, but I like your abstracts better. Everything
on your site is so colorful, spiritual and alive. The pressures of schooling were so great on her that she
left the private school track to pursue a GED and a High School equivalency certification.
Illuminating thoughts, thank you for sharing them. Very clear. Thank you for expanding my ways to
see, Polly. In other words, it's a documentary about the pressure epidemic running rampant in our
school system. If she’s careless and forgetful about homework, you probably need to step in and
enforce standards. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
Concentration: Race, Social Class and Social Relations in Urban Education. I made your fabulous
Fish Tacos and they were BEYOND delicious. Vicki Abeles filmed the 2010 documentary Race to
Nowhere after witnessing her children's health deteriorate, in part, from the stress of homework.
Quotes like “The world is run by C students,” meant to defuse the situation, feel uncharacteristically
glib for a film otherwise concerned with real exploration of issues. Thank you for all the inspiration
you share so generously. I love this poem, Polly, and I shall read it often. Your blog is bursting with
poetry, art, writings, love of God, family, friends, all things great and wonderful and good. What can
we learn by modeling existing variations in school spending and. YouTube’s privacy policy is
available here and YouTube’s terms of service is available here. Yes, healing does happen when we
deeply and humbly pray. Polly, I’m grateful for you, your prayerful work, your blog, your art,
photos, words and colors. After reading Diane Ravitch and analyzing her critique on the 1983 Nation
at Risk report and NCLB legislation, I was fascinated when the film mentioned these important
policies. She writes, “In the months ahead, the End the Race.org movement will inspire action on
homework, testing, rankings, admissions and other educational practices to create positive and
sustainable change for our students.”. Then, a 13-year-old girl in their town committed suicide and it
served as a real wake up call. You are proving and sharing truth in a precious, creative, encouraging,
and heartfelt way. Harris Cooper, professor of neuroscience and psychology at. Thank you for
tending these lovely flowers together, and for posting on your blog, Polly. Easy to see why you are
much loved. Thank you. Excellent, meaningful, quotes. You are a Creative Genius, Polly. Wow. Yes,
quite something to contemplate. She was a straight A student, extremely talented in music, loved
nature and had a cheery disposition. This is one of the BEST explanations of one’s understanding of
God I have seen in a long time. Playing for Keeps examines the value of play through a health lens.
The next summer the duo pre-recorded all their lectures for students to watch each night. She has an
MBA from SMU and a passion for writing good-news stories about fascinating people. The idea of
students spending more time on homework is not held in high regard, albeit levels of homework
increase, should they move along in their educational careers. I am simply amazed at the wealth of
beauty, soul, and experience. Love it. Love you! Thank You for sharing your innermost so openly.
Love your pastels! Once again, you have come through for us with such clear and coherent thinking
and put into words the feelings in our hearts. I love these particular colors together and the different
styles and techniques really give it a lot of depth and texture. I am so totally impressed with your
photography, poetry, and painting. You are doing so wonderfully at praising God with your talents.
I am so totally impressed with your photography, poetry, and painting. If you ask me, instilling a
lifelong love of learning is a really good path of happiness. Polly, I needed you today and there you
were and it was enough. Please do the right thing by the children of our community. In the end of
the film, they use the Blue School in New York City as a model of effective schooling. Prior explicit
permission is required, however, for any portion of Polly Castor’s photographs, art works or writings
to be otherwise copied, reproduced in any way, re-blogged or downloaded ( Contact Me Here ).
Providing us with wonderful refreshment, enlightenment, peace, encouragement, joy, and a whole
lot more. Sunday’s New York Times carried an article by Vicki Abeles. She writes, “In the months
ahead, the End the Race.org movement will inspire action on homework, testing, rankings,
admissions and other educational practices to create positive and sustainable change for our
students.”. In his paper on the subject, Mitchell describes the syndrome by saying, “This is a societal
disease, a virus of an idea that has spread through the LinkedIn generation and its children. I did
your tomato tart a few days ago, and it was fabulous. Raising a child and being a student have this
in common: None of us can be perfect at our tasks. I love it! AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:
Outstanding, superb and beyond all imagination. What a delight to experience the beauty of nature
you shared of your slice of the world through these beautiful photos. Wow, you outdid yourself this
month with your Bits and Clips. With the work of Cooper and Kohn in mind, I think most of. If
she’s careless and forgetful about homework, you probably need to step in and enforce standards.
You can tune out parent conversations at the ball field or bus stop that are making you feel
competitive or anxious. Thanks so much! This blog deeply resonates while being beautiful, delicious,
inspiring, and fun. Homework amounts, a parent's ability to assist a child as well as cultural and
language obstacles all contribute to family stress, found a recent study published in The American
Journal of Family Therapy. You are so incredibly sweet, gracious, kind, thoughtful, creative,
generous, joyful, witty, courageous, tender, persistent, compassionate, brilliant, articulate, ad
infinitum. Polly always captures the balance between what I can do, a nd all the miracles I am given.
But others aren't convinced that will help anyone and, instead, want to flip some long-held beliefs
about homework, like that it needs to be done at home. Thanks, Polly. Well Done! This is such a
wonderful venture. The pressures that students face are real, but it seems that the sample that Abeles
surveys for the film is smaller and not representative of the problems and successes of many
communities of educators and students across the nation. I feel blessed this morning to know you in
all the ways you reveal good and magnify it. I encourage authenticity, nurture creativity, champion
sustainability, promote peace, and hope to foster a new renaissance where we all are free to be our
most fulfilled, multifaceted, and terrific selves. You continue to inspire, impress, and amaze me,
Polly. The film vilifies teachers and school administrators as not being able to relate to the families
that they service.
College admissions folk will frankly tell you that they are looking for these kinds of distinctions.
Polly always captures the balance between what I can do, a nd all the miracles I am given. In this
scene, and many others, the filmmakers educe a deeply emotional response from the viewers because
of the deeply personal and emotional display that the teachers, parents and others display throughout
the film. Right now, we are caught on a treadmill of teaching to the test and pressuring kids to
perform instead of learn. Students feel tremendous pressure to get into top colleges Race to Nowhere
(0:37) Race to Nowhere illuminates the negatives effects of the overwhelming volume of work
children receive, as well as the pressure to achieve, at primary and secondary schools. Good linkage
to Ravitch’s book, but unfortunately, it was not cited as an external source, as required by this
assignment. Thank you for your spiritual calm, support for each of us, uninhibited creativity, and
amazing paintings. I think that pushing our kids to perform could actually be getting in the way of
their success. It’s a breath of fresh air, beauty, and innovative thinking. You show great courage,
humility, and such support for everyone around you. The speaker’s message was not popular among
the students present at the meeting and one student stated that she didn’t want or need any free time.
They identify different pressures that children endure at both at home and in school, yet find it
harder to point to solutions that are both realistic and effective. I cherish the healing thoughts therein
very much, and they are very helpful. The schools are thus put on the backburner and disregarded as
sites of reform. Some parents and educators have launched a crusade to abolish homework in an
effort to relieve stress, reclaim childhood and even the playing field for students. Bless your precious
and beautiful soul for sharing this. But others want to flip some long-held beliefs about homework,
like that it needs to be done at home. But these facts are too often swept up in the gusts of
overblown righteous anger that the film employs to mask its inability to master its wide variety of
contentions. The director and protagonists share memories of a different and painful existence in a
way that touches and challenges us and is relevant everywhere in the world.”. Read all A silent
epidemic, cheating, has become commonplace in our schools; students have become disengaged;
stress-related illness, depression and burnout are rampant; and young people arrive at college and
workplaces unprepared and uninspired. I must say that I don’t find any of those reasons to be. It’s a
rare inspiration that can uncover an aching joy — but those poems do that. When students came back
with a primary concept learned, it freed up classroom time for lab work, experiments and other
projects, Sams says. Reporting in this current political climate is a responsibility we do not take
lightly, and we thank you for your support. I am vegetarian and look for meals I can make that have
lots of flavor. I salute you! And I sure do thank you for inspiring me to greater efforts along all lines
of life. How does this bode for the lives of young people and the future of our country. This film is
about the need for a paradigm shift in our educational system, away from an ineffective competitive
culture to one of meaning, purpose, creativity, passion and authentic learning. At HuffPost, we
believe that a free press is critical to having well-informed voters. The young woman experienced
bouts of depression, emotional breakdowns and a stint with anorexia that led her to be hospitalized.
I heartily agree with them all now I have a bigger perspective on life. They claim it improves
achievement, develops time-management skills and helps kids realize learning can happen outside of
the classroom. The film provides important insight into the changing role of the family but does not
touch on the impact that the families have on schools. Please do the right thing by the children of our
community. Your concluding sentence is strong, but it brings up a relatively new idea, and I think
that it would strengthen your essay if you had suggested some ideas as to how to accomplish this.
DVD Published by Carlos Velazquez Trinity College Class of 2014. Thank you for bringing such
beauty into my every day. Thank you for all the inspiration you share so generously. I also saw
similarities between Race to Nowhere and my film in how families are the focus of both narratives.
Featured in the film: Dr. Madeline Levine, Clinical Psychologist and author of the best-seller, The
Price of Privilege. Thank you for your honesty, integrity and willingness to speak out for Truth and
Justice. After reading Diane Ravitch and analyzing her critique on the 1983 Nation at Risk report
and NCLB legislation, I was fascinated when the film mentioned these important policies. I have
been blessed beyond words by your daily posts. For all of them, Kralovec says, homework had once
presented an insurmountable obstacle. The young woman, throughout her school career had to try to
appease her teachers, parents and others who would constantly reinforce to her that they were placing
such pressures on her in her best interest, when in fact, it was not. The Howlers of History and How
We Must Reclaim the Narrative. Thanks! Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly. Thank
you for this. Read it. Gave me hope. Going through an “unsure” time. If students don't perform well
(measured by test scores), it reflects badly on the teacher. She believed in the idea of meritocracy and
that by teaching her students to work hard she could use education as a method to move students
out of the socio-economic strata which they occupy. You have put into words what so many of us
have in our minds and hearts. I think it’s an important feature in films surrounding education reform
because it helps make a specific argument and allow the message to seem clearer and more applicable
to real, American families. One boy says, I'm not thinking about what any of (the homework) means.
Polly your blog is simply a marvelously enriching, thought provoking part of the daily wonders of
life. Independently owned and operated publications like Slant have been hit hard in recent years,
but we’re committed to keeping our content free and accessible—meaning no paywalls or fees.
Danielle, a twelfth grader at Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California describes her experience,
“Cheating has become another course. She articulates the idea that students are faced with having to
do homework AND do well on that homework AND attend sports practice before doing homework
AND volunteer in their community AND pay attention in school AND get good grades. Thanks,
Polly. Well Done! This is such a wonderful venture. Thank you! I enjoy reading your notes from the
Bible Lesson. Some parents and educators have launched a crusade to abolish the practice in an
effort to relieve stress, reclaim childhood and even the playing field for students.
Cheating has become commonplace, she says, stress-related illness and depression are rampant,
students are disengaged, and young people arrive at college and the workplace unprepared and
uninspired. I love this poem! Letting our true, authentic self come forth. I am in absolute awe of
your thorough and articulate way you describe how all of this works. As Americans head to the polls
in 2024, the very future of our country is at stake. They lose sleep that is important to everyone, but
especially to growing adolescents, they starve themselves to help stay away and they suffer
headaches, stomachaches and other issues. This is such a beautiful and loving blog and feels much
like your amazing dynamic spiritual art. Presented by the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville and
the New Directions Center. Thank you for being such a beautiful and prolific source of inspiration.
This is a beautiful summary and reminder of how we can both individually and collectively dissolve
the powerless, baseless lies with Truth. And, when there’s compelling evidence that school and
achievement stress and anxiety is taking a toll on children, we need to listen. According to the film,
Americans are giving children too much homework, and asking them to build outsize resumes of
activities. Right now, we are caught on a treadmill of teaching to the test and pressuring kids to
perform instead of learn. Thank you for sharing yourself and creativity in such a transparent way, it
is very inspiring and humbling to me. When kids from other schools started sending them thank-you
messages for their helpful explanations of complicated concepts, the teachers experienced a light-
bulb moment. But these facts are too often swept up in the gusts of overblown righteous anger that
the film employs to mask its inability to master its wide variety of contentions. Other flowers are
lovely too, but hydrangeas are SPECIAL. That's why our journalism is free for everyone, even
though other newsrooms retreat behind expensive paywalls. Providing us with wonderful
refreshment, enlightenment, peace, encouragement, joy, and a whole lot more. The point your film
makes about the AP bio teacher is interesting and seems to contradict this idea, but how do we
guarantee that all teachers in the public school system are of the same calibre as him. I appreciate the
joy, inspiration, and great information you provide us in your blogs. The story, in a nutshell:
Filmmaker Vicki Abeles was worried about physical and emotional stress in her family due to her
kids' homework and extracurricular loads. She co-authored The End of Homework and now works
with End the Race, a charity that wants to transform education and public perception of success.
Illuminating thoughts, thank you for sharing them. Very clear. Thank you for expanding my ways to
see, Polly. The film vilifies teachers and school administrators as not being able to relate to the
families that they service. Danielle, a twelfth grader at Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California
describes her experience, “Cheating has become another course. Thank you for your spiritual calm,
support for each of us, uninhibited creativity, and amazing paintings. If you ask me, instilling a
lifelong love of learning is a really good path of happiness. Some parents and educators have
launched a crusade to abolish homework in an effort to relieve stress, reclaim childhood and even the
playing field for students. Thank you Polly for your radiant joy and embrace of each of us, wrapping
us in your color and beauty of Soul. There does, however, seem to be a benefit to children reading at
home.