Full name: How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

Author: Paul Tough Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads OpenLibrary Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780547564654 9780544104402 0547564651 0544104404

Challenges conventional views about standardized testing to argue that success is more determined by self-discipline, and describes the work of pioneering researchers and educators who have enabled effective new teaching methods. Similar books: Rethinking School by Susan Wise Bauer Endangered Minds by Jane M. Healy Punished By Rewards by Alfie Kohn The Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins A Circle of Children by Mary MacCracken NurtureShock by Po Bronson You Can't Say You Can't Play by Vivian Gussin Paley The Secret of Childhood by Maria Montessori The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley The Myth of Laziness by Mel Levine A Mind At A Time by Mel Levine Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax Failure to Connect by Jane M. Healy Summerhill by A. S. Neill In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew by Ellen Notbohm So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schull Love Is Stronger Than Death by Stanley M. Giannet The Matrix of the Mind by Thomas Ogden