Malcolm Gladwell

overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds

You master mathematics if you are willing to try

Pearl River Delta

Sze Yap people

David Levin, who founded KIPP with a fellow teacher, Michael Feinberg, in 1994

In fact, one of the singular features of rice cultivation is that because of the nutrients carried by the water used in irrigation, the more a plot of land is cultivated, the more fertile it gets

Johns Hopkins University

California Achievement Test

he's putting in a few solid months of learning during the summer while she watches television and plays outside