True U College Admissions Ep 1: Dr. Denise Pope, Stanford University Professor, Award Winning Author

In this first episode, we talk to Dr. Denise Pope, Stanford University researcher, author, and co-founder of Challenge Success, a nonprofit that offers schools and families research-based strategies for a healthier, more authentic path to success in the 21st century. Her work focuses on academic stress and its consequences for students' mental and physical health, engagement with learning, and integrity. She is the author of the award-winning book Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students. She also co-authored Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids. Dr. Pope co-hosts the podcast "School's In.”