Education Research: character education

Quotation from an article on the links between character education and long-term student success, in a very interesting collaborative research project between a fancy New York private school and a KIPP charter school: "Peterson [a psychology professor at U. Michigan] ... identified a set of strenghts that were, according to his research, especially likely to predict life satisfaction and high achievement. ... They settled on a final list: zest, grit, self-control, social intelligence, gratitude, optimism and curiosity."

- "What if the secret to success is failure?", New York Times magazine, 9/18/2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB