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Paul Tough
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Dear Readers,
As you can see, I’m no longer updating this blog with much regularity. I’m leaving it in place here on my website because it’s a useful (to me, at least) archive of posts from 2008 to 2012, mostly relating to my first book, Whatever It Takes, and the Harlem Children’s Zone.
I’m still regularly posting new information about my books, articles, and speaking engagements, but I’m posti...
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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
— published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
— published 2008 — 5 editions |
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What It Takes to Make a Student
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Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor
by Michael J. Rosen (Goodreads Author) , Henry Alford , Hart Seely — published 2000 — 7 editions |
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So here's where I'm coming from: I run after-school programs in a low-income public housing community where I see mostly middle school and high school students. My background is not in education, though, but rather social work, and the deeper I ge...
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“What matters most in a child's development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self-confidence.”
― Paul Tough, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
― Paul Tough, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
“The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school.”
― Paul Tough, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
― Paul Tough, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
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