Vincent Filletti and Robert Anda founded this study to track health outcomes based on early-life traumatic experiences.
What is The ACE Study
100
Pessimistic adults and children can train themselves using this concept to be more hopeful, and if they do, they will likely become happier, healthier, and more successful.
What is Learned Optimism
100
According to Chapter 3, the more intelligent you are, the better you can play this game.
What is Chess
100
Over the past few years, it has become clear that the United States does not so much have a problem of limited and unequal college access; it has a problem of limited and unequal college___________
What is Completion
100
Dominic Randolph, the head of the Riverdale Country School, made a persuasive case that failure - or at least the real risk of failure - could often be a crucial step on the road to this.
What is Success
200
This young doctor opened the Bayview clinic near one of San Francisco's most violent housing project to study this effect on children's health.
What is Poverty
200
This concept is the ability to recognize interpersonal dynamics and adapt quickly to different social situations.
What is Social Intelligence
200
Using chess and homeschooling, Laszlo Polgar argues that if done correctly, one can raise their child to be this.
What is a Genius
200
Identify one of the five non-academic skills or "leadership principals" named by Jeff Nelson as part of his OneGoal Curriculum.
What is Resourcefulness
Resilience
Ambition
Professionalism, or
Integrity
200
Ironically, this American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. dropped out of college.
Who is Steve Jobs
300
This part of the brain is most affected by early stress. It is also the part of the brain that regulates our emotional and psychological health.
What is Prefrontal Cortex
300
In 1996, President Clinton, declared in his State of the Union address, "I challenge all our schools to teach character education, to teach good values and good__________
What is Citizenship
300
In chess, after you reach 2,200 points, you earn this title.
What is Grand Master
300
This number is the highest possible score on the standardized ACT test.
What is 36
300
In 2010 the New York Times reported that over half of Princeton graduates took jobs in one of these two industries not known for their high level of personal fulfillment or deep social value.
What is Investment Banking or Consulting
400
In a study of rats, a pup who experienced higher levels of this grew up to be braver and bolder and better adjusted than a pup who hadn't.
What is Licking and Grooming
400
Walter Mischel, a professor of psychology at Columbia University is famous for a study of self-control using this food item.
What is Marshmallow
400
British Grand master Jonathan Levitt proposed a precise mathematical relationship between IQ and chess prowess in what he called the Levitt equation: Elo ~ (10 x IQ) + this number.
What is 1000
400
A study of 6,300 university undergraduates found that students today spend fewer than 13 hours a week doing this, while they spend 12 hours hanging out with friends, 14 hours consuming entertainment, 11 hours using computers for fun and 6 hours exercising.
What is Studying
400
According to Chapter five, this percentage of American children are growing up in poverty.
What is 22% or 1 out of 5
500
When Chicago's mayor ws granted control of the city's schools by the Illinois state legislature, he used this school to implement a business-like approach to address its underperformance.
What is Fenger High School
500
Adults who scored the lowest on self-control tests in childhood are this many times more likely to be convicted of a crime.
What is Three
500
In this 2008 book, Malcolm Gladwell brought to popular attention the theory that it takes ten thousand hours of deliberate practice to truly master a skill, whether it is playing violin or programming computers.
What is Outliers
500
"Adequate Yearly Progress" is a benchmark assigned to a school by this federal law that was passed in 2001.
What is No Child Left Behind
500
This is the number of American children growing up in a family earning less than $11,000 per year.