5 researchers who can help us understand how children succeed
When Paul Tough first began reporting on the skills that help children succeed both in and out of the classroom,…
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Author Paul Tough answers your questions about ‘Helping Children Succeed’
Paul Tough, author of our October pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown…
The study that helped this reporter understand student success
What should teachers do to help their students succeed? That was a central question that journalist Paul Tough was trying…
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A Brief But Spectacular take on honoring Breonna Taylor
Mahogany L. Browne is a poet, author and mother. In response to the police killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville…
How this reporter learned to love nosy questions
Our October 2020 pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is Paul Tough's "Helping Children Succeed."
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Lynne Cheney on American presidents of ‘The Virginia Dynasty’
Four of America's first five presidents were born and raised within a 60-mile radius in the state of Virginia. Those…
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Rick Gates on the Mueller probe and why current ‘polls are wrong’
With Election Day less than a month away, a former top official with the 2016 Trump campaign has written a…
Joy Harjo on how a new Native poetry anthology fills a gap in American literature
For centuries, Native poetry has been preserved by the spoken word. So when a team of editors were putting together…
American poet Louise Glück wins Nobel literature prize
American poet Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for her "candid and uncompromising" work, becoming the…
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