How Children Succeed: by Paul Tough | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

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How Children Succeed: by Paul Tough | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review

How Children Succeed by Paul Tough is a journalistic review of the most recent research connecting success in adulthood with character development in childhood, and the programs that use character to motivate and teach low-performing children to become high achievers. Most school curricula and measures of future success for children are historically rooted in cognitive indicators like math ability, language skills, and critical thinking. While those indicators are significant factors in future success, even children who score high in cognitive indicators struggle if they have low non-cognitive indicator scores. Non-cognitive indicators, including conscientiousness and grit, are also known as character traits.

This companion to How Children Succeed includes:

Overview of the book

Important People

Key Takeaways

Analysis of Key Takeaways

and much more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781943427628

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OVERVIEW

How Children Succeed by Paul Tough is a journalistic review of the most recent research connecting success in adulthood with character development in childhood, and the programs that use character to motivate and teach low-performing children to become high achievers. Most school curricula and measures of future success for children are historically rooted in cognitive indicators like math ability, language skills, and critical thinking. While those indicators are significant factors in future success, even children who score high in cognitive indicators struggle if they have low non-cognitive indicator scores. Non-cognitive indicators, including conscientiousness and grit, are also known as character traits.

Adverse childhood events can hinder a child's development of good character traits and relate to chronic stress and underachievement later in life. Many high school students in low-income situations experienced a great deal of stress early in life, made mistakes throughout their childhoods, and generally do not go to college to improve their social mobility. On the other hand, children who are shielded from adverse childhood events experience high stress when they reach adulthood. Parenting that allows children to take risks and experience failure while still working to prevent high childhood stress levels can counteract the