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  • Published: 29 August 2016
  • ISBN: 9781847947963
  • Imprint: Random House Books
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $34.99

Helping Children Succeed

What Works and Why





A handbook to guide parents and teachers through the science of helping children succeed

In his international bestseller How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control and conscientiousness play a critical role in children’s success. Now, in Helping Children Succeed, he outlines the practical steps that adults – from parents and teachers to policymakers and philanthropists – can take to improve the chances of every child, however adverse their circumstances. And he mines the latest research in psychology and neuroscience to show how creating the right environments, both at home and at school, can instil personal qualities vital for future success.

  • Published: 29 August 2016
  • ISBN: 9781847947963
  • Imprint: Random House Books
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $34.99

About the author

Paul Tough

Paul Tough is the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America and the author of a series of acclaimed articles on character and childhood in the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker. He is a contributing editor to the New York Times Magazine and a frequent contributor to the public-radio program This American Life. He lives with his wife and son in New York.

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