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How children succeed : grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character

Call Number

  • 372.21 T7229 (OSH)

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Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

Physical Description

xxiv, 231 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

A foremost "New Yorker" and "New York Times" journalist reverses three decades of thinking about what creates successful children, solving the mysteries of why some succeed and others fail -- and of how to move individual children toward their full potential for success.

Contents

  • How to fail (and how not to)
  • How to build character
  • How to think
  • How to succeed
  • A better path.