Paul Tough

Writer & Speaker

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  • @1healthymother Thanks, Leslie. It was great to see you there.
  • RT @DLeonhardt: MT @chingos Terrific infographic summarizing Hoxby-Avery #BPEA paper on talented poor students: t.co/YuqGZtb0AH …
  • RT @NickKristof: Excellent analysis by Nobel winner James Heckman of Obama's early childhood education proposal: t.co/7WEXUFnOqn
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About Paul

spacer Paul Tough is the author, most recently, of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, which has spent 12 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. His first book, Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America, was published in 2008.

Paul is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, where he has written extensively about education, parenting, poverty, and politics, including cover stories on character education, the achievement gap, and the Obama administration’s poverty policies. His writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, Slate, GQ, Esquire, and Geist, and on the op-ed page of the New York Times.

He has worked as an editor at the New York Times Magazine and Harper’s Magazine and as a reporter and producer for the public-radio program “This American Life.” He was the founding editor of Open Letters, an online magazine.

He lives with his wife and son in New York.


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