How Children Succeed

Posted on 19 January 2018 by Paul Tough

Why do some children succeed while others fail 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 How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues for a very different understanding of what makes a successful child Drawing on groundbreaking research in neuroscience, economics, and psychology, Tough shows that the qualities that matter most have less to do with IQ and to do with character skills like grit, curiosity, conscientiousness, and optimism How Children Succeed introduces us to a new generation of scientists and educators who are radically changing our understanding of how children develop character, how they learn to think, and how they overcome adversity It tells the personal stories of young people struggling to stay on the right side of the line between success and failure And it argues for a new way of thinking about how best to steer an individual child or a whole generation of children toward a successful future.This provocative and profoundly hopeful book will not only inspire and engage readers it will also change our understanding of childhood itself. Best Download [ How Children Succeed ] author [ Paul Tough ] – kino-fada.fr Like Lean In Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, this book serves primarily as a starting point for discussion How do children succeed Paul Tough and co aren t really sure They are also unsure of what defines success in the first place In today s world, it seems a little dishonest to write a book that never addresses real workplace...This book makes an unbalanced argument in two ways First, it claims that if schools could just help students develop non cognitive skills such as grit, courage, kindness, that would haveimpact on eventual success than cognitive skills In truth it s both and You need knowledge AND habits of mind Paul Tough alludes to this with a couple of stories of students who have learned to focus but don t have the background knowledge to score well on tests, yet keeps coming back to grit as the sol This book makes an unbalanced argument in two ways First, it claims that if schools could just help students develop non cognitive skills such as grit, courage, kindness, that would haveimpact on eventual success than cognitive skills In truth it s both and You need knowledge AND habits of mind Paul Tough alludes to this with a couple ...A full executive summary of this book is available here it comes to a child s future success, the prevailing view recently has been that it depends, first and foremost, on mental skills like verbal ability, mathematical ability, and the ability to detect patterns all of the skills, in short, that lead to a hefty IQ However, recent evidence from a host of academic fields from psychology, to economics, to ed...As a teacher I have often wanted to put a sign in my classroom, Many a student has failed because you can t send mom and dad to the principal s office We cannot fix what s wrong with U.S educational system until we fix what s wrong with families, or the lack of family Tough finally addresses in the last chapter the elephant in the room, which educators and politicans acknowledge behind close doors that the family a child is born into will predict how well a child will succeed in school and As a teacher I have often wanted to put a sign in my classroom, Many a student has failed because you can t send mom and dad to the principal s office We cannot fix what s wrong with U.S educational system until we fix what s wrong with families, or the lack of family Tough finally addresses in the last chapter the elephant in the room, which educators and politicans acknowledge behind close doors that the family a child is born into will predict how well a child will succeed in school and life Tough s book affirms what every study has shown that intelligence alone is not a predictor in academic or life success, but character Character is formed in the first 3 5 years of life before a child enters school It s the teaching and example of parents which will help children be successful, and so many of this generation and the generation to come do not have parents that are giving them tools they need because they are absentee p...As a teacher, I really appreciated a lot of the issues brought to light by this book When he quotes the principal at an extremely difficult school saying that its the first time she has considered that the student s environment outside of school has a major effect on performance in school, it seems unbelievable However, this shows you how much brainwashing occurs throughout education where the people running schools and teaching in them are told that none of that matters and all that matters i As a teacher, I really appreciated a lot of the issues brought to light by this book When he quotes the principal at an extremely difficult school saying that its the first time she has considered that the student s environment outside of school has a major effect on performance in school, it seems unbelievable However, this shows you how much brainwashing occurs throughout education where the people running...There s a certain kind of book that journalists like to write that I used to like, because I found it very convincing It s the kind of book that reads something like this We all used to think that XXX But then Professor AAA of the University of BBB did a study and it turns out that it s YYY I used to like this because when you re young, you think the world is screwed up, and it s refreshing to find somebody that purports to demonstrate that your instincts are right and up is actually down a There s a certain kind of book that journalists like to write that I used to like, because I found it very convincing It s the kind of book that reads something like this We all used to think that XXX But then Professor AAA of the University of BBB did a study and it turns out that it s YYY I used to like this because when you re young, you think the world is screwed up, and it s refreshing to find somebody that purports to demonstrate that your instincts are right and up is actually down and black is actually white, and then you want to turn the world upside down so this huge problem that everybody has been trying to solve the wrong way can now be fixed.This book is kind of like that It says we ve been trying to teach poor kids to read and write, and professors AAA and BBB and CCC say what they really need is grit Or character Or resilience It s a very appealing argument if you have grit, you ll succeed in life regardless of what falls down around you...This was the book du jour in education circles a couple of months ago everyone reading it, nitpicking Tough s conclusions and assumptions I didn t expect to like it, particularly in fact, I stopped reading after the chess section but finally finished it The end of the book is the best part, where Tough pulls together the disparate threads of the research he s studied, on character and why it matters so much, and admits oh yeah, we re totally headed in the wrong direction, policy wise.There This was the book du jour in education circles a couple of months ago everyone reading it, nitpicking Tough s conclusions and assumptions I didn t expect to like it, particularly in fact, I stopped reading after the chess section but finally finished it The end of the book is the best part, where Tough pulls together the disparate threads of the research he s studied, on character and why it matters so much, a...Some books amaze you with breath taking aesthetic appeal, others with innovative and unexpected narrative elements, and then there are books that are amazing because the story they tell changes the way you see and understand the world What this book presents is an alternative to the cognitive hypothesis This is a long standing theory which posits that success defined in this book as a happy, meaningful, and fulfilling life is determined by one s cognitive abilities What Tough s book suggest Some books amaze you with breath taking aesthetic appeal, others with innovative and unexpected narrative elements, and then there are books that are amazing because the story they tell changes the way you see and understand the world What this book presents is an alternative to the cognitive hypothesis This is a long standing theory which posits that success defined in thi...Pretty interesting pseudo science It could have been one extremely long chapter of a Malcolm Gladwell book maybe if the title had been one word The main premise of the book is that intelligence isn t nearly as effective a predictor of success usually determined by completion of a college degree as a measurement of a child s character.Paul Tough clearly believes the thesis of his book, but the success stories in his case studies always seem to come up short of true success Students get int Pretty interesting pseudo science It could have been one extremely long chapter of a Malcolm Gladwell book maybe if the title had been one word The main premise of the book is that intelligence isn t nearly as effective a predictor of success usually determined by completion of a college degree as a measurement of a child s character.Paul Tough clearly believes the thesis of his book, but the success stories in ...This guy hangs out at some inner city schools and tells us touching stories about programs that seem his word to help rescue the underprivileged, undereducated kids who are already failing We don t need seem to work From a book with a title like How Children Succeed we should learn about what is proven effective He doesn t talk at all about the experience of the schools in Raleigh, North Carolina, which as far as I know is the one example of an entire metropolitan area with children s This guy hangs out at some inner city schools and tells us touching stories about programs that seem his word to help rescue the underprivileged, undereducated kids who are already failing We don t need seem to work From a book with a title like How Children Succeed we should learn about what is proven effective He doesn t talk at all about the experience of the schools in Raleigh, North Carolina, which as far as I know is the one example of an entire metropolitan area with children succeeding in school see hope and despair in the american city He does mention Perry preschool briefly I would have liked muchabout that and other programs that actually work Instead, the author devotes much of the book to trendy brain science psycho babble including rat studies rat studies for crying out loud and he tries to extrapolate all that to polic...

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19 January 2018

Paul Tough