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Author Tough, Paul, author.

Title How children succeed : grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character / Paul Tough.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
©2012.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  372.21 TOUGH    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  372.21 TOUGH    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  372.2 TOU    Storage
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  372.21 T643    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  372.21 TOUGH    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  PARENTING 372.21 TOUGH, PAUL    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  372.21 TOU    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  372.21 TOUGH    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  372.21 TOU    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  372.2109 TOU    Check Shelf

Description xxiv, 231 pages ; 24 cm
Note LC copy 1 signed by author. DLC
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index.
Contents How to fail (and how not to) -- How to build character -- How to think -- How to succeed -- A better path.
Summary In this book the author reverses three decades of thinking about what creates successful children, solving the mysteries of why some succeed and others fail, and of how to move individual children toward their full potential for success. The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in this book the author argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character: skills like perserverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self-control. He uncovers the surprising ways in which parents do, and do not, prepare their children for adulthood. And he provides us with new insights into how to help children growing up in poverty. Early adversity, scientists have come to understand, can not only affect the conditions of children's lives, it can alter the physical development of their brains as well. But now educators and doctors around the country are using that knowledge to develop innovative interventions that allow children to overcome the constraints of poverty. And with the help of these new strategies, children who grow up in the most painful circumstances can go on to achieve amazing things. This book has the potential to change how we raise our children, how we run our schools, how we construct our social safety net, and also how to change our understanding of childhood itself.
Subject Early childhood education -- United States.
Cognitive styles in children -- United States.
Cognitive styles in children. (OCoLC)fst00866559
Early childhood education. (OCoLC)fst00900596
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Kleinkinderziehung. (DE-588)4073498-5
Denkstil. (DE-588)4136495-8
Armut. (DE-588)4002963-3
Zufriedenheit. (DE-588)4129186-4
Erfolg. (DE-588)4015224-8
Erziehung. (DE-588)4015482-8
United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
ISBN 9780547564654 (hbk.)
0547564651 (hbk.)
0544104404 (pbk.)
9780544104402 (pbk.)
Standard No. 40021273369
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