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Author Paul Tough Gives Talk on the Traits that Help Children Succeed

By Guest PostNovember 14, 2012Culture, Educationariel kalil, character strength, character traits, chicago harris, college, completion rate, conscientiousness, crime lab, curiosity, dimension, homecoming, how children succeed, information, international house, james heckman, joshua anderson, journalistic enterprise, neighborhoods, nobel laureate, non cognitive skills, northwestern university, optimism, paul tough, perseverance, public policy, school success, Science, self control, social policy, stress, success, trauma, uchicago

To Paul Tough, his recent visit to the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy was “a nice homecoming.”

During the two years of research for his new book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character, Tough spent time at UChicago and in its surrounding neighborhoods.

“The nerve center of my journalistic enterprise was a small dorm room in International House,” he joked Oct. 18 in a speech at Chicago Harris, saying that many of the ideas in the book drew from work in the Department of Economics, the Economics Research Center, the Crime Lab and from the Consortium on Chicago School Research. (more…)

Children’s Book Author

By Guest PostNovember 12, 20121 commentCulture, Educationcaribbeanreads, children book, childrens book author, heidi fagerberg, pig named wilbur, remember ehen

CEHD alumna writes children’s book about animal friends on St. Kitts

Can a dog and a monkey be best friends? In Heidi Fagerberg’s first children’s book, Lion Paw and Oliver – An Unlikely Friendship, readers learn that the answer is yes. (more…)

Behind the Surface: 19th-Century Haitian Paintings Provide Link to Past

By Guest PostNovember 6, 2012Culture19th century, african diaspora art, art historian, caribbean collection, haitian artist, haitian paintings, haitian revolution, repair artwork

Behind the surface of a painting lies the history of its making. Scholars now know more about the histories of some 19th-century Haitian paintings held in Yale’s collections, thanks to the collaborative efforts of colleagues from Yale, the Smithsonian Institution, and Haiti. (more…)

A New Vision of Democratic Individualism in ‘Awakening to Race’

By Guest PostOctober 29, 2012Culture, Politicsamerica, american history, awakening, black, brown candidate, Chicago, education, fha, home mortgage, inequality, investment risk, jack turner, jim crow, new deal, one generation, political science, race, racial justice, social consciousness, social goods, success, united states, university, uw today, white families, white supremacy

Jack Turner, UW assistant professor of political science, is the author of “Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America,” published this month by University of Chicago Press. He answered a few questions about his book for UW Today.

What’s the central concept behind “Awakening to Race”?

The book addresses the challenge of racial justice by asking, “What does it mean to be a self-aware human being? What does it mean to be awake to reality?”

In part, it means confronting the worst aspects of ourselves and our lives. Being awake to reality in the United States means confronting the ways America’s history of slavery, Jim Crow and white supremacy still shapes the present — the opportunities we have or we lack, the confidence we have in ourselves or fail to have in others, the ways our chances for success are still color coded. (more…)

Nettles — it’s what’s for dinner!

By Guest PostOctober 27, 2012Culture, Healthfeast of weeds, food historian, luigi ballerini, wild edible plants

UCLA scholar, culinary historian champions foraged foods in new book

Today, delicacies like capers, arugula and fennel are at home at Dean & Deluca, Whole Foods and fancy restaurants, but they haven’t always lived the high life. (more…)

‘Earth Perfect?’

By Guest PostOctober 23, 2012Culture, Natureancient greek, annette giesecke, book, contemporary architecture, delaware, earthly delights, ecological decline, ecological meaning, garden, hieronymus bosch, humanity, maine, naomi jacobs, Nature, new england, organic farming, perfect earth, political, pompeii, relationship, repository, roman gardens, roman studies, social, spiritual, symbolic, university, versailles

Professor’s new book examines nature, utopia and the garden

“the result of humanity’s attempt to carve out an ideal place in nature, thereby fashioning a ‘perfect’ earth” — is the subject of a new book, co-authored and edited by the University of Delaware’s Annette Giesecke.

Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia, and the Garden is a lushly illustrated, 303-page volume that brings together essays from writers and experts across disciplines to study the relationship — historical, present and future — between humanity and the garden. (more…)

Foster Kids do Equally Well when Adopted by Gay, Lesbian or Heterosexual Parents

By Guest PostOctober 22, 2012Culturefoster kids, heterosexual parents, high risk children, lesbian families, lesbian parents

High-risk children adopted from foster care do equally well when placed with gay, lesbian or heterosexual parents, UCLA psychologists report in the first multi-year study of children adopted by these three groups of parents. (more…)

Common Reader Author Visits

By Guest PostOctober 14, 2012Cultureannawadi community, beautiful forevers, english creative writing, intellectual disabilities, mumbai undercity

Katherine Boo talks of hope and struggle in Annawadi, India

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Katherine Boo found that despite having to struggle daily to survive, the people who live in Annawadi, India, also share the common hopes, dreams and aspirations of people everywhere in seeking to better themselves and their children. (more…)

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