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Educators across the country are intimately familiar with the struggles of children experiencing adversity as are social workers, mentors, pediatricians, and parents.

If you work with kids who are growing up in poverty or other adverse circumstances, you know they can be difficult to reach, hard to motivate,

hard to calm down, and hard to connect with.

Those of us who seek to overcome these educational disparities face many obstacles, some financial,

some political, and some bureaucratic.

But the first obstacle, I would argue, is conceptual.

We don't yet entirely understand the mechanisms behind childhood adversity.

What is it about growing up in poverty that leads to so many troubling outcomes?

Or, to put the question another way, what is it that growing up in affluence provides to children that

growing up in poverty does not? That is on the rear jacket of a book that I'm holding in my hands

titled Helping Children Succeed, What Works and Why, by Paul Tuff. Paul's prior work,

How Children Succeed, was a New York Times bestseller.

This is a really interesting book. It's data driven, but it's right at the cross-section.

Of all conflict, from my perspective, all conflict that we see in America.

Now, all is a big word.

But when you start to look at young kids, how they are growing, how they are developing,

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