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The Secret To Raising Smart Kids By Malcolm Gladwell
Success: A Road To a Child’s Education:
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Gladwell, Malcolm. "Marita’s Bargain." Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Collection Grade 12. N.p.: Holt Dougal, 2014. 3-14. Print.
Malcolm Gladwell is using information regarding the known to be successful school across the Bronx area, KIPP schools, to testify his reasoning of the protocols these schools follow that make kids so successful, like Marita, rather than other public schools that don't seem to follow the same regulations. These schools are taken advantage by people who are under the income threshold and simply want the best for the child’s education. According to Carol S. Dweck’s work on “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids” shows two sides of children with same applied situations


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