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Paul Tough is the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America. His new book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, will be published in September 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He has written extensively about education, child development, poverty, and politics, including cover stories in the New York Times Magazine on character education, the achievement gap, and the Harlem Children’s Zone. He has worked as an editor at the New York Times Magazine and Harper’s Magazine and as a reporter and producer for the public-radio program "This American Life." He was the founding editor of Open Letters, an online magazine. His writing has appeared in Slate, Esquire, GQ, and...more

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Avance in Santa Barbara

In the Santa Barbara Independent, the story of how Whatever It Takes helped bring AVANCE, a great program for parents, to town:

AVANCEis an early childhood and parenting program aimed at lower-income Hispanic communities that began in San Antonio, Texas. …

The principal of McKinley[Elementary School], Emilio Handall (who will become an assistant superintendent in July), first read aboutAVANCE...

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	Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America 4.17 avg rating — 1,430 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	What It Takes to Make a Student 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:

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