- Published: 26 May 2016
- ISBN: 9781473538368
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 144
Helping Children Succeed
What Works and Why
- Published: 26 May 2016
- ISBN: 9781473538368
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 144
Around the world, countries are embracing early-childhood projects, opening snazzy centres and dispatching home visitors. But too many projects are of poor quality. Mr Tough shows that it need not be this way.
The Economist
When author Paul Tough released How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character in 2012, it spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller lists and was translated into 27 languages . . . Now he’s back with a new book that builds on his previous work. Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why explains how parents, teachers and administrators can create environments to foster qualities that lead to success.
Knowledge@Wharton – The Magazine of Wharton Business School
Packed with . . . research-based insights into addressing students’ core social and emotional needs. For the past decade or more Tough has been one of the pre-eminent reporters translating education research for public consumption. His new, slim book is no exception, and it contains some surprises for fans of his previous work.
NPR
[A book] you really should read.
Huffington Post
This book upends everything we thought we knew about where grit comes from and how to get it.
Quartz
Tough is adept at translating academic jargon into precise, accessible prose . . . Tough promotes [his argument] so persuasively.
New York Times
A thought-provoking new book . . . An important step in the right direction.
Psychology Today
Tough mixes hard truths and hopefulness . . . Tough offers limited proof that early stress can be overcome and that kids who get care when they are still very young can enter kindergarten at the same level as better-off kids.
New Yorker