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How children succeed grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character

A foremost "New Yorker" and "New York Times" journalist reverses three decades of thinking about what creates successful children, solving the mysteries of why some succeed and others fail -- and of how to move individual children toward their full potential for success.

Main Author: Tough, Paul (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Subjects:
Kauffman, Gloria tribute.
Early childhood education.
Cognitive styles in children.
Summary: A foremost "New Yorker" and "New York Times" journalist reverses three decades of thinking about what creates successful children, solving the mysteries of why some succeed and others fail -- and of how to move individual children toward their full potential for success.
Physical Description: xxiv, 231 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780547564654
0547564651
Author Notes: PAUL TOUGH is the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America . He has written extensively about education, child development, and poverty in cover stories for the New York Times Magazine , and in The New Yorker , Slate , GQ , Esquire , and the New York Times .

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