Homework -- how much, for whom, and to what end -- has long been a focus of discussion and concern among parents, teachers and PTA associations across the country.

The latest skirmish in the education wars came as the New York Times published performance rankings for New York City public school teachers. Teachers don't need metrics-driven scolding. They need small classes, professional development and moral support.

What's good for the goose is evidently not so good for the gander. In America's current educational environment, the disparity of experience is bad and getting worse.

The desire for successful children in a performance-based culture often consumes us before we realize it.

If rewards are conditioned on giving "right" answers, children will indeed work hard to figure out what the adult will accept as the "right" answer.

Australia is on the Move! Professor Barry McGaw, Chair of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), has a brand new national curriculum to explain.

The masses seem to have been brainwashed into believing traditional school and college are the only keys to success even if our children are sick, depressed, or worse. DEAD.

Why not give their kids back their social lives and their sanity? Why not remove them from the problem? It seems so simple. Yet it doesn't occur to anyone.

For all its courage in tackling sacred suburban norms, the Race to Nowhere fails to take on the elephant in the living room, the matter of class.

Hearing the voices and seeing the proof that our children are being driven to stomach pains, headaches, hospitalizations and even suicide from the pressure to succeed had a visceral effect on the crowd.

The pressure to get into a very specific kind of college has become, in many areas, integral to pre-college education.

Race to Nowhere isn't about how the education system is failing low-income kids. It's about how as a society we have put so much pressure on our children.

Alarmed by the intense sense of pressure her daughter felt to succeed in school, Vicki Abeles made a documentary film exploring students' stress. Abe...

The educational problems featured in recent documentaries are real. How different they are shows how increasing inequality has affected the educational system, family life, and childhood socialization.

We need to start having honest conversations about what is truly valued in education. We need to stop putting this pressure on our students to perform at all costs, especially when it jeopardizes their health and well-being.

"Race to Nowhere" is a film about how schools and parental pressure are affecting students' mental and emotional wellbeing -- that we are killing our kids, figuratively and sometimes literally.