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Hothouse Kids: How the Pressure to Succeed Threatens Childhood

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Hothouse Kids: How the Pressure to Succeed Threatens Childhood - Quart, Alissa
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Quart provides a revelatory and provocative examination of the enormous pressures being brought to bear today on children designated as "gifted," and explains how all of the special programs, classes, and competitions meant to ensure they will be highly successful can have serious "revenge effects" and troubling long-term consequences.

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Hothouse Kids: How the Pressure to Succeed Threatens Childhood 2007, Penguin Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780143111917

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