The pressure on students to build their resumes as quickly as possible is creating a multitude of problems. Now there is a movie that exposes the issue. The Race to Nowhere portrays the pressures when schools pile on hours of homework and coaches turn sports into year-round obligations. Left somewhat unexamined is the role of parents whose high expectations contribute the most pressure of all. Are you using team based learning in your classroom? Do you like Vegas? You can combine the two by having your proposal accepted for presentation at the 10th Annual Conference on Team Based Learning in Higher Education being held March 3-4, 2011 in Vegas. They are accepting poster abstracts until December 15. There is a good article that explains the concept of team based learning by Clark, Nguyen, Bray, and Levine. Although it focuses on nursing education, you can easily apply their approach to other disciplines. The Call for Proposals for the 2011 Great Lakes Conference on Teaching and Learning is now open. This year's conference tracks include: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Research/Creative Activity, Mobile Learning and New Media, and Meaningful Learning Experiences: Integrated Learning Outcomes and Assessment Measures. Proposals are due February 1, 2011 while the conference will be held in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan from May 11-13, 2011. Students and their parents are mostly to blame for poor college-graduation rates, according to a poll released today by the Associated Press and Stanford University. The better the education people get, the stronger the U.S. economy will be, the poll also shows.