This conversation with Paul Tough highlights the research he did to write his latest nonfiction book which explores children and character and what makes children successful. This conversation with ...

This conversation with Paul Tough highlights the research he did to write his latest nonfiction book which explores children and character and what makes children successful. What made you want to ...

Paul Tough's How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character is an outstanding book with many invaluable insights for parents and teachers. Tough's goal was to better ...

In the summer of 2009, a couple of weeks after my son, Ellington, was born, I spent the day in a prekindergarten classroom in a small town in New Jersey. The two events were unrelated — I was visiting ...