How Children Succeed By Paul Tough

Chapter 1: In the first chapter Robbins introduces the students she followed along with the overachiever culture that has rearranged high schools only purpose into getting students into the most prestigious Colleges and Universities rather than the school that would be the best fit for each student.

“Essentials of a Good Education” is an article by Diane Ravitch regarding the No Child Left Behind legislation and its effect on public schools in America. According to her, since that legislation was put into place, schools have cut funding to subjects that don’t get tested. This has taken some of the most ambitious students in the schools in poorer communities and put them at the same level as the students that don’t care about school and don’t try. That keeps the ambitious and advanced students from reaching their full potential in school. Although Ravitch makes good points about her opinion, she doesn’t consider any opposing opinion and she cites little to no sources for her information.

Kawauna Lerna used perseverance, passion, and strength to achieve success in challenging classes through collage. Firstly, Kawauna used perseverance to muster difficult biology words. For example, Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed, points out that when she did not understand challenging words she put a red star beside them and spoke with her professor after class for help. As you can see, by getting extra help and not quitting, Kawauna persevered. Secondly, Kawauna was very passionate about her studies, she was the only person in her family that attended college. For instance, Tough shares that in biology all of the African Americans wanted to sit in the back of the classroom, but Kawauna wanted to sit at the front of the class.

What is the key to children 's success? Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of character, with Andre Perry, author of "Why Mentors need to Stop Trying to Fix Black and Brown Students," and "Black and Brown Boys Don 't Need to Learn "Grit," They Need School to Stop Being Racist" and Eric Liu, author of "What American Should Know: Defining Common Cultural Literacy for an Increasingly Diverse Nation", these three author claims they have the solution for a child 's success their strategies is the best way for a child to thrive in life. These authors have one goal in mind and that 's to help expand child education; however, they all have a different view on how to achieve that road. Even Tough, in

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Overall, I thought the reading was interesting. I believe this is vital information one must know about themselves, the human body, and what the differences are. However, I really want to focus on, gender roles, and gender behaviors because most society thinks that forcing your kids to do “manly” things or “girly” things will make them more masculine or feminine. I am here to say that is not always true. According to an observation done on a group of 14 year olds in a three month period, this could be a health risk says thinkprogress.org. “ Raising children in societies that adhere to rigid gender roles with fixed ideas such as “masculine” and feminine,” can actually be detrimental to their physical and mental health.” I would have to agree

The Essentials of a Good Education by Diane Ravitch is about the argument on the importance of mathematics and literature. One side argues that students can be successful in life with test proficient in only mathematics and literature; while, the other side claims that mathematics and literature are important, but are not enough for one to find what they are good at. While both sides have a point, I am going to analyze the both sides of the argument. I agree with Ravitch’s side of the argument. While both mathematics and literature are important, I believe that it is crucial to branch out from those so that we can all find our own passion.

Rick Braithwaite the main character is in dissipotment after he gets back from the army. He has trained to be an engineer but can’t finally he has to make the decision to pursue another career. He had to go with teaching at Greenslade School. The class that was given to him was very disobident but he eventually earned respect from them. This character was was dynamic and for sure changes throughout the story. The author included him in the story because the author was him. He helped the plot move along very much because he was the main character. I know many people with the same traits, for example my coach is very kind and loving but still makes sure that we give it our all. If I were to interact with Rick I would show him much respect and

The way Glasser chose to compose his book was by breaking up the chapters into what elements of a school are important including the teachers and administrators roles in helping students get more out of school. In the first chapter Glasser explains the issues he observes in public schools, from students being coerced into

Kewuana Lerna, used perseverance, passion, and confidence to achieve success in challenging classes. To begin, Kewuana used perseverance to get past the struggle of not knowing vocabulary in her college Biology class. For example, Paul Tough, author of “How Children Succeed” shares that Kewuana had written down every word that she did understand, when the class was over she waited until everyone else was finished talking to the professor. Kewuana proceeded to talk to her professor about the vocabulary and waited until she understood every word (Tough). Thus, Kewuana pushed herself through all the difficulties, one was asking for assistance, and learning words she did not know. Secondly, Kewuana was passionate about

Fatherhood to me, the way I look at it, is all kids need an idols to kids the father is like the super hero of the family, the rock! The dad makes the kids feel safe and will most likely not misbehave in school because he will also teach the children to respect older people and their teachers. That’s my personal the way I was raised in my dad’s presents. According to Skye Loyd’s essay, “Why Kids Need Their Dads,” she states, “At school, children of involved fathers do better academically. For example, a study by the U.S Department of Education found that children of highly involved fathers were 43 percent more likely than other children to earn mostly as and 33 percent less likely to repeat a grade.

1-1. What does the author suggest is the only thing that should really separate us from animals?We're the only species with language, we told ourselves—until gorillas and chimps mastered sign language. We're the only one that uses tools then—but that's if you don't count otters smashing mollusks with rocks or apes stripping leaves from twigs and using them to fish for termites. 2-2. What shows that kids have an innate sense of morality?Morality may be a hard concept to grasp, but we acquire it fast. A preschooler will learn that it's not all right to eat in the classroom, because the teacher says it's not. If the rule is lifted and eating is approved, the child will happily comply. But if the same teacher says it's also O.K. to push another student off a chair, the child hesitates.

In the article "Schooling Children in Manners, Thank You Very Much author Alyson Krueger discusses the issue about middle schoolers not having good manners. Krueger talks about Cord Ivanyi, a teacher in Chandler,Arizona who is fed up after seeing the way middle school teenage boys have no manners toward one another. When he was a teacher in Gilbert, Arizona he taught lectures on "Lessons From the Past "where he educated teenage boys on how to become proper teenagers. More of classes like "Atiquette School of Manhattan" train nannies on the upbringing of a child, this includes lessons on overcomming shyness, how to control anger and even building listening skills. The auther then epilogue a mother Heather Haupt who created the Knignt in Program

Third, I have found an article that I feel represents transformation. The article is entitled "How to Change a Teenagers Life" by Marilyn Price Mitchell. In this article it's tells older people how they could change a teenagers life. It states 5 ways on how to change a teenagers life that an older person can do as a role model. With me being a teenager I feel this article is amazing. I feel if role models did the things they said in the website, that it actually could transform a teenager. It could change them into a much better person. There are 5 ways in the article on how to change a teenagers life, the first one is my favorite. In the article entitled "How to Change a Teenagers Life" it states "Role models show passion for their work and

In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete.” Jessica Statsky discusses a serious issue of competitive sports that has now become a major part of the life of the young adult. She is of the opinion that these competitive sport can have harmful effects on a child’s mind. The immense physical pressure is really harmful as well. The injuries due to these extreme sports can take a lot of time to heal themselves. Statsky says that these competitive sports are designed keeping in mind the strength and age of adult which deem them unfit for younger children. The children should not be forced to play these sports. Jessica talks about the strain the sports but on the developing phase of a child’s life both mentally and physically. Due to the demanding nature of these sports, they start to feel like a job rather than a leisure activity, says Jessica Statsky. Children should be able to enjoy the sport and not consider it as a burden. Jessica is really alarmed by the fact that the children’s sports