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Paul Tough (born 1967) is a Canadian-American writer and broadcaster. He is best known for authoring the works Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America and How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. Background and career He grew up in Toronto and was educated at the University of Toronto Schools. As a teenager, he was co-host of Anybody Home, a weekly youth-oriented programme broadcast nationally on CBC Radio until the show's cancellation in 1983. He has also served as an editor of The New York Times Magazine. Tough attended Columbia University for one semester in the fall of 1985. He then continued his studies at McGill University in Canada for three semesters. Ultimately, he left college without earning a degree. Tough moved back to the United States in 1988 and worked for Harper's Magazine and then returned to radio becoming senior editor of This American Life in the mid-1990s. In 1998, he returned to Canada to serve as editor of Saturday Night. By 2000, Tough had returned to the United States to found Open Letters, an online magazine. He has written extensively about education, poverty and politics, including cover stories in the New York Times Magazine on the Harlem Children's Zone, the post-Katrina school system in New Orleans, the No Child Left Behind Act, and charter schools. He returned to This American Life in the early 2000s, where he reported, more recently, on the parents enrolled in the Harlem Children's Zone's Baby College. His writing has appeared in Slate, GQ, Esquire, and The New Yorker. He lives with his wife and sons in Austin, Texas and Montauk, New York. Books Tough is the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America and How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, which he published through Houghton Mifflin in 2008 and 2012 (respectively). Whatever It Takes detailed the Harlem Children's Zone project, a multi-pronged effort within a ninety-seven block area of New York City founded in 1997 by Geoffrey Canada. Tough described how Canada has "believed that he could find the ideal intervention for each age of a child’s life, and then connect those interventions into an unbroken chain of support", with the Zone functioning as a social and economic "conveyor belt" working from children's birth to their college age. The New York Times ran a supportive review by Linda Perlstein of the National Education Writers Association; she wrote, "when it comes to an introduction to the debate about poverty and parenting in urban America, you could hardly do better than Tough’s book." How Children Succeed built upon the work of James Heckman, University of Chicago economist and Nobel lauterate, that stated that education should focus more on promoting the psychological traits of "conscientiousness" among children at young ages rather than more IQ-related studies later in life. Tough wrote explicitly, "There is no anti-poverty tool that we can provide for disadvantaged young people that will be more valuable than character strengths". He cited research such as the famous Perry Preschool Project to state that nurturing, supportive personal relationships with adults in educational settings promote non-cognitive attributes that lead to higher incomes, less criminality, and other benefits, even when children face harsh early environments, to deliver a message that Tough found "a bit warm and fuzzy" but "rooted in cold, hard science". As a key example, he cites the work of Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, who studied how students instructed that people can boost themselves intellectually get higher grades than those who believe in a fixed idea of intelligence. The Washington Monthly ran a positive review by Thomas Toch, who stated that Tough made "a compelling case" in "an engaging book that casts the school reform debate in a provocative new light". The Boston Globe ran a supportive article by Jenifer B. McKim; she wrote, "In this concise book, Tough provides deep research, expert testimony, and eloquently described real-life characters to make his case." See also Harlem Children's Zone HighScope References External links paultough.com Roberts, Russ (September 17, 2012). "Paul Tough on How Children Succeed". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty. Appearances on C-SPAN. Discover the Paul Tough popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Paul Tough books.
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The Infinite Blacktop
Sara GranNamed one of the best books of 2018 by NPRThe “delicious and addictive” (Salon) Claire DeWitt series returns with a thrilling, noirish knockout of a novel that follows three separa...
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The Gift of Pain
Paul Brand & Philip YanceyPain is not something that most of us would count as a blessing; however, renowned surgeon Dr. Paul Brand and awardwinning writer Philip Yancey shed fresh light on the purpose of o...
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Hockey Towns
Ron MacLean & Kirstie McLellan DayEvery Canadian town has a hockey story, and Ron MacLean has a hockey story for every town. A new book by the coauthor of the national bestseller Cornered.When you first meet Ron Ma...
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The Case for a Creator Student Edition
Lee StrobelIn The Case for a CreatorStudent Edition, bestselling author and former atheist Lee Strobel and popular writer Jane Vogel take younger readers on a remarkable investigation into th...
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101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees
Paul Falcone101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees provides guidance for managers on how to broach uncomfortable conversations across a wide range of issues.Inappropriate workplac...
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Twelve Years of Correspondence With Paul Meehl
Donald R. PetersonIn 1996 Division 12 of the APA presented Centennial Awards to two psychologists who were considered to have made the greatest lifetime contributions to the discipline. One of those...
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Raising Human Beings
Ross W GreeneRenowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parentchild relationship while also n...
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How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen
Joanna Faber & Julie KingOVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLDA musthave resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen &...
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When life is tough
Deborah DuncanA chapter book retelling the story of Paul, who encountered many harsh and demoralising situations on his missionary journeys with additional related snippets from other Bible stor...
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The AMA Handbook of Project Management
Paul C. Dinsmore & Jeannette Cabanis-BrewinThis book is an essential resource that presents a stateoftheart theory and process of project management.Packed with essays and insights from the field's top professionals,?this a...
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Who Gets In and Why
Jeffrey SelingoFrom awardwinning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissions officeone that identifies surp...
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Nothing Significant To Report
Dario NustriniLaughoutloud yarns from a soldier in the New Zealand ArmyIn 2011, a young Dario Nustrini pulled up at Waiouru Military Camp. Raring to go, he had visions of shooting guns, riding t...
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Most Likely to Succeed
Tony WagnerThe basis for a major documentary, two leading experts sound an urgent call for the radical reimagining of American education so we can equip students for the realities of the twen...
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UnSelfie
Michele BorbaHailed as “an absolute mustread” (Jean Twenge) and a book that “will change your kids’ lives” (Jack Canfield), UnSelfie by Dr. Michele Borba explains what parents and educators MUS...
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How To Talk So Kids Can Learn
Adele Faber & Elaine MazlishThe leading experts on parentchild communication show parents and teachers how to motivate kids to learn and succeed in school.Using the unique communication strategies, downtoeart...
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The Power of Presence
Joy Thomas MooreFor single parents, working parents, and caregivers who worry about the time they spend away from their children, the mother of The Other Wes Moore shares strategies to raise happy...