"SOS Stressed Out Students: Helping to Improve Health, School Engagement, and Academic Integrity" Conference

Stanford University's School of Education, the California Endowment, and the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health will sponsor a conference entitled, "SOS Stressed Out Students: Helping to Improve Health, School Engagement, and Academic Integrity." This second annual conference is designed to address the growing concern that adolescents are often compromising their mental and physical health, personal values, and commitment to learning as they try to contend with the pressure for high achievement in U.S. schools.

Friday evening, May 13th will include a plenary session that is free and open to the public from 7:30 — 9:30 p.m. at Cubberley Auditorium in the Stanford University School of Education Building.

The panel speakers will include Lloyd Thacker, Executive Director of The Education Conservancy and author of "College Unranked," an attempt to change the college admissions process and counter the stress that students and parents face in the pre-college years; student speakers from middle school, high school and college; and Dr. Denise Clark Pope, author of "Doing school: How we are creating a generation of stressed out, materialistic, and miseducated students." Stanford School of Education Dean Deborah Stipek will moderate the panel.

For a complete conference schedule and more information, see http://sosconference.stanford.edu.