To the Point
Students and the Pressure to Perform
As college application deadlines loom, parents, educators and mental health professionals are asking if the amped up pressure on kids to get into elite schools has pushed students to the breaking point.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 50m ListenThe amped up race to get kids into elite colleges is sending some kids to emergency rooms with panic attacks, and worse... is academic pressure pushing teenagers to the breaking point. Guest host Barbara Bogaev asks what can be done about it.
Later on the program, more than 70 years after the end of World War II, the long awaited reparations for the Comfort Women.
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3 storiesIraqi Forces Declare Victory over ISIS in Ramadi
Iraqi government forces retook central parts of Ramadi today from the Islamic State, although pockets of resistance remain. Recovering control over that key city of would allow Iraq to cut off supply lines to Fallujah and potentially recover that city as well.
Read the story6 minAcademic Success: Are Teenagers Paying Too High a Price?
Silicon Valley's Palo Alto school district is in crisis. The suicide rate for teenagers there is four to five times the national average. This tragic statistic has made the city a symbol of the pressure kids live under in affluent communities to get into elite colleges, to excel at everything, to succeed at all costs.
Read the story35 minControversial Comfort Women Settlement between Korea and Japan
After seventy years, there is finally an apology and a settlement for the women forced to work in brothels for the Japanese Imperial Army during WW II.
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