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PETITION FOR HEALTHY HOMEWORK PRACTICES GARNERS 11,000 SIGNATURES IN FIVE DAYS

  Signatures and comments urging reform of current homework practices at U.S. schools are pouring into the Change.org site where parents, students and educators have been invited to sign a petition urging the National PTA to adopt healthy homework guidelines. In fewer than four days, the petiti...

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May 17, 2012

Peggy Butler Interviews Vicki Abeles

  I saw Race to Nowhere when it first came out, in 2010, at our local theater. Vicki was there that night, and spoke after the filming. I have long been a critic of the No Child Left Behind Act, as I have seen what it has done to our education system and today’s children. I am a...

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Apr 14, 2012

Doctors Give A Big Thumbs Up for Race to Nowhere's Campaign for Change

  Doctors Give A Big Thumbs Up for Race to Nowhere’s Action on Teen Sleep More than 1,000 physicians nationwide took time out of their busy schedules to watch Race to Nowhere via an online, live stream in March, in recognition of National Sleep Awareness Week.  Their response was overwhelm...

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Vicki Abeles

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Mar 27, 2012

Surviving or thriving without technology this weekend? Reconnect by disconnecting.

  Could your children survive 24 hours without their iPhones or checking Facebook? Could you live a day without email and the Internet?  Sundown tonight marks the start of the “National Day of Unplugging,” a day where many organizations are calling on individuals to power down and temporar...

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Vicki Abeles

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Mar 23, 2012

Generation ZZZ - Our Sleep Deprived Youth

When Hayley was a senior in high school, she crashed her car into a tree in her neighborhood in Leicester, North Carolina. Hayley wasn’t driving while intoxicated, or coming home late from a party or piloting a car packed with teenagers. She was simply driving home from school on an ordinary October...

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Vicki Abeles

Posted:
Mar 7, 2012

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