Education - Book Excerpts

Innovations in educational policies, programs, and practices

Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why

By Paul Tough 2

Building on his previous work about the importance of personal traits such as perseverance in student success, Paul Tough focuses Helping Children Succeed on how educators, policymakers, and parents can help children develop those attributes.

Squandering America’s Future

By Susan Ochshorn

Squandering America’s Future offers an irreverent critique of the way we rear and educate children today, with profiles of change makers—ingenious gymnasts who keep their balance on the three-legged stool of research, practice, and policy.