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Stress Test; At Walt Whitman High in Bethesda, it's the Harvard bound who've really got problems.

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060910
Author:Reviewed by Rachel Hartigan Shea

THE OVERACHIEVERS

The Secret Lives of Driven Kids

By Alexandra Robbins

Hyperion. 439 pp. $24.95

At a time when "underperforming" seems to be the sorry watchword of American education, it's unsettling to come across a book bemoaning the plight of the overachievers. Forget the impoverished teenagers stuck in anarchic schools that would shame the worst Third World potentate; it's the kids with a shot at Harvard who've really got problems. They have too much homework in too many classes, extracurriculars that require their leadership and parents who feel entitled to a sticker from a name-brand ...

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