PRESENTS

Slipping Behind A documentary examining the cost of today's

educational choices to our children and our future

Thursday, March 5, 2009 &

Friday, March 6, 2009 Dolby Laboratories

Lobby level 1350 Avenue of the Americas

between 54th & 55th Streets New York City

7:00 PM

Screenings followed by facilitated conversation with Director, Vicki Abeles

& Sara Bennett, Co-Author of The Case Against Homework

RSVP to julie@reellinkfilms.com - Space is limited!

SLIPPING BEHIND is a close-up look at the pressures on todayʼs students, offering an intimate view of lives packed with activities, leaving little room for down-time or family time. Parents today are expected to raise high-achieving children, who are good at everything: academics, sports, the arts, community-service. The film tackles the tragic side of our often achievement-obsessed culture, with interviews that explore the hidden world of over-burdened schedules, student suicide, academic cheating, young people who have checked out.

SLIPPING BEHIND asks the question: Are the young people of today prepared to step fully and productively into their future? We hear from students who feel they are being pushed to the brink, educators who worry students aren't learning anything substantive, and college professors and business leaders, concerned their incoming employees lack the skills needed to succeed in the business world: passion, creativity, and internal motivation. The filmmakers take viewers to schools across the country to talk to teachers, parents, students, and experts including: Denise Clark Pope, author of Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Mis-educated Students Madeline Levine, author of the best-seller, The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage are Creating a Generation of Materialistic and Unhappy Kids Deborah Stipek, Dean and Professor of Education at Stanford Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, an adolescent medicine specialist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and author of an American Academy of Pediatrics report on the importance of play; and Sara Bennett, founder of Stop Homework and co-author of The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It. Wendy Mogel, author of the best-seller, The Blessing Of A Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children SLIPPING BEHIND is a call to families, educators, experts, state and national leaders to examine current assumptions on how to best prepare the youth of America to become the healthy, bright, contributing and leading citizens we need.

Please visit our website to pre-order the film and to join the conversation on our bulletin board. www.reellinkfilms.com

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