![]() Building independence and self-efficacy through rigorous but meaningful academic work is key. Instead of concentrating on individual actors, Tough’s book showcases the interventions – some school-based, many not – that have altered the very conditions in which children grow up. ![]() It is an important conclusion, in part because it takes issue with more conventional school reform, which has tended to focus on “fixing” the students, the parents, and, most recently, the teachers inhabiting that environment. That is the most critical insight in journalist Paul Tough’s excellent book, “Helping Children Succeed,” which came out this summer. ![]() The core qualities that drive success in the 21st century can be learned but not necessarily taught. ![]()
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