The Huffington Post – Osman Rashid
“The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) came out with a proposal a few days ago that parents of high school students can really get behind. Many parents have seen their kids enter high school only to be inundated with one-upmanship — comparing how many essays they are writing, how many AP classes they are taking, how many sports are they playing, how many extracurricular opportunities are they participating in and how much sleep they are [not] getting. This is the high school version of keeping up with the Joneses, and it has been shown to have truly dangerous effects on our children’s mental health…Starting with this new proposal from HGSE, colleges are finally stepping up and saying that it is quality — not quantity — that matters…Also, for the first time, colleges are saying they want to see a good track record of community engagement, not just academic engagement.”(more)