This looks like a very interesting new book. Sean Blanda sets up an interview with author Paul Tough: From 1962 to 1967 researchers selected students with low-income and low-I.Q. parents at the Perry Preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan and divided them into two groups. One group received a special high-quality education, while the control group used the school's normal curriculum. The students that received the high-quality education showed short-term gains in I.Q. but by the third grade, they were again even with the control group. The experiment was seen as failure - until the researchers … [Read more...] about It’s Not IQ: It’s Grit, Curiousity, and Character