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Mission: SOS  Photos and Article by Angie Wang, Tri-City Voice

Stress: The Mission Predicament
Mission San Jose High School Smoke Signal
Written by Sonia Sajja, Clara Ma, and Natalie Yang
March 1, 2008

Mission: SOS, Spotlight on Schools Fremont Unified School District
Inside Bay Area
Written by Tomasa Macapinlac; Co-edited by Martha and Moriah Kreeger
December 12, 2007

Washington Post features SOS
Mission San Jose High School Smoke Signal
Written by Julia Harrell & Dale Wang
November 17, 2007

Stressed-Out Students holds four seminars
Mission San Jose High School Smoke Signal
Written by Ankur Amlani
September 10, 2007

Washington Post.com

Crash Course 
Experts at Stanford University have created a program to help stressed-out students gain perspective -- before they collapse
By Lori Aratani
November 4, 2007

Post Magazine: Stressed Out Students
Denise Clark Pope, Stanford University
Alexandra Robbins, Author
Martha Kreeger, Parent
November 5, 2007

In her story in The Washington Post Magazine Education Review, Post Metro reporter Lori Aratani travels to northern California, where stressed out high school students, their parents and teachers are getting a crash course on navigating the pressures of applying to college.

Today's discussion is a roundtable featuring Denise Clark Pope, a founder of Stanford University's Stressed Out Students (SOS) conferences; Martha Kreeger, a parent member of the Mission San Jose (Calif.) High School team; and Alexandra Robbins, author of "The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids.