Asian-American achievers don't just study for tests. They participate in sports, art, music and dance.

The "Portrait of a Graduate" fad is likely to be "so vague and insipid that they create a permission structure for schools to prioritize most everything except academics and to excuse themselves when they fail at their responsibility to teach even basic literacy and numeracy,"

Schools can't teach creativity as a general skill applicable to all fields.

" The meritocracy isn't working ," writes David Brooks in The Atlantic . Ambitious parents "ferry their kids from one supervised...

Students are encouraged to express themselves, writes Elizabeth Grace Matthew, who's taught writing at several universities, on The Hill....