'Race to Nowhere' film highlights stress students face in high-pressure academics
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Documentary film attempts to show the pressures faced by American schoolchildren and their teachers.
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It was as if their private worries had come to life on screen: Teenagers so pressured to get As, to fill their college resumes with sports and music and language, they start losing their grip. Long nights of homework leave them exhausted. Stress becomes stomach pain and anorexia and depression. Some turn to cheating or pills. Others just give up.
Riveted to this disturbing tableau were more than 300 parents and educators, including Elise Browne Hughes
