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

By Paul Tough. Houghton, $27 (9780547564654).

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Tough argues that disadvantaged children would be best served by learning such skills as grit, conscientiousness, curiosity, and optimism in this very hopeful look at promising new research in education.

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9780547564654

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