Paul Tough
Paul Tough (born 1967) is a writer and broadcaster. He is perhaps best known for authoring the works Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America and How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character.
Background and career
He grew up in Toronto and was educated at the University of Toronto Schools. As a teenager, he was co-host of Anybody Home, a weekly youth-oriented programme broadcast nationally on CBC Radio until the show's cancellation in 1983.[1][2]
Tough first moved to the United States in 1988 and worked for Harper's Magazine and then returned to radio becoming senior editor of This American Life in the mid-1990s before moving back to Canada to serve as editor of Saturday Night in 1998.[1] By 2000, he had returned to the United States to found Open Letters, an online magazine.[2]
He has written extensively about education, poverty and politics, including cover stories in the New York Times Magazine on the Harlem Children's Zone, the post-Katrina school system in New Orleans, and No Child Left Behind and charter schools. He has worked as an editor at the New York Times Magazine. He returned to This American Life in the early 2000s, where he reported, most recently, on the parents enrolled in the Harlem Children Zone's Baby College.[3] His writing has appeared in Slate, GQ, Esquire, and The New Yorker. He lives with his wife and son in New York City and Montauk, New York.
Books
Tough is the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America (2008) and How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character (2012).
How Children Succeed built upon the work of James Heckman, University of Chicago economist and Nobel Lauterate, that stated that education should focus more on promoting the psychological traits of "conscientiousness" among children at young ages.[4][5]
References
- ^ a b "Saturday's Child", Ryerson Review of Journalism (March 1999)
- ^ a b "Paul Tough", The Transom Review (April 1, 2001)
- ^ "Paul Tough". This American Life. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
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