Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why

by Paul Tough

Book Overview

In 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, Tough takes on a new set of pressing questions: What does growing up in poverty do to children's mental and physical development? How does adversity at home affect their success in the classroom, from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544935284
• ISBN13: 9780544935280
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"