Tough, Paul

Paul Tough discusses higher education in the United States.

Journalist Paul Tough discusses what he believes creates successful children, looking at why some succeed and others fail and how to move individual children toward their full potential for success.

Presents the argument that test scores should not be the measure of childhood success, but rather how well the characteristics of perseverance, conscientiousness, self-control, optimism, and curiosity are fostered in our children. Examines the science of character assessment in children.

Explores how Geoffrey Canada is attempting to change the lives of poor children in America through his Harlem Children's Zone, a ninety-seven-block lab in Harlem where Canada and his staff test new and controversial ideas about poverty in the United States, including his theory that poor children need everything in their lives, including their schools, neighborhoods, and family practices, changed in order to compete with their middle-class peers.