Special Lecture: Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed

paul tough

Thursday, November 8
12:00pm to 1:30pm

Snell Library 90 | RSVP

Paul Tough is the author of the new book How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. His first book, Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America, was published in 2008.

How Children Succeed by Paul ToughPaul has written extensively about education, child development, poverty, and politics, including cover stories in the New York Times Magazine on character education, the achievement gap, and the Obama administration’s poverty policies. 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. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Slate, GQ, Esquire, and Geist, and on the op-ed page of the New York Times.

Sponsoring Organizations: College of Social Sciences & Humanities, Human Services, Northeastern Bookstore, Snell Library, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs
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