Nancy Kalish

About Nancy Kalish

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LATER IS BETTER
Are teenagers lazy? No, they're just not built to be alert early in the morning. Click below to hear Nancy discuss starting the high school day later on The Brian Lehrer Show on NPR
(1/16/08)



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Nancy Kalish is the coauthor of The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Crown, 2006), as well as several other books.


A former senior editor at Child, Cosmpolitan, and other magazines, Nancy is also a former Mommy Strategies columnist for Redbook, Learning Curve columnist for Working Mother, and Healthy Families columnist for Selecciones (the Spanish-language version of Reader’s Digest).

Nancy has written hundreds of articles for Parenting, Parents, Child, Real Simple, Reader's Digest, More, Ladies Home Journal, Health, Prevention, Self, Fitness, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, The New York Daily News, The Washington Post, The Seattle Post-Intelligenger, and many other publications.

Nancy speaks frequently on the subject of homework and other education issues to the media and parent groups around the country. TV and RADIO APPEARANCES: Nancy has appeared on The Today Show, CBS Evening News, ABC Eyewitness News, Good Day New York, Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel, The Brian Lehrer Show on NPR, The Dennis Prager Show (syndicated) The Mitch Albom Show (syndicated), The Drew Mariani Show on Relevant Radio,The Parent Coach with Connie Sinclair, and many other radio programs from coast to coast.

Nancy is also a former adjunct professor at New York University's Graduate School of Journalism. She lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn, New York.
(Photo by Allison Rutter)
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Selected Articles

Article
New York Times Op-Ed: The Early Bird Gets the Bad Grade
Later is Better Are teenagers lazy? No, they're just not built to be alert early in the morning.
Hounded by Homework
The New York Daily News Op-Ed, Sunday, September 24, 2006
Articles
Use Your Willpower Wisely
New research shows that you have a finite store of this valuable cognitive currency, so spend it the smart way
Light Up Your Health
Light Up Your Health The brilliant new strategy for losing weight, sleeping better, and fighting disease: Just get the right dose of light at the right time.
New Thinking On Memory
PREVENTION Published: May 2007
No More Teachers, Lots of Books
The New York Times, Op-Ed, Monday June 19, 2006



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