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Paul Tough is the author, most recently, of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. His first book, Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America, was published in 2008. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, where he has written cover stories on character education, the achievement gap, and the Obama administration's poverty policies. 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 the New Yorker, and on the op-ed page of the New York...more


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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Average rating: 4.02 · 5,022 ratings · 1,042 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
How Children Succeed: Grit,...
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 2,956 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey...
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 1,972 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
What It Takes to Make a Stu...
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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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

“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

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