How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
Paul Tough,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Paul Tough,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780547564654
Publish date: 04-09-2012
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edition language: English
This book was pretty interesting, but it was structured weird. It was basically four stories, one about KIPP and other charter schools, one about problem schools in inner cities, one about problems that affluent (basically uber rich) kids face, and then a huge section on chess clubs. I was hoping fo...
Why are we always so quick to reject the wisdom of older people as outdated? Don't we always come back around and take another look and find they were right after all?Paul Tough takes a look at new research on children who grow up to find success in their adult lives and shares with us the New Versi...