Duckworth: Teaching grit cannot fix severe systemic educational barriers
Angela Duckworth · #109 Angela Duckworth: Grit and Human Behavior · Apr 20, 2021 · at 19:40
Psychologist Angela Duckworth addresses scholarly critiques regarding whether promoting grit in marginalized communities overlooks structural racism and poverty.
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“If you are asking questions about, like, you know, underachievement and, you know, closing the achievement gap, etc., and you know, the antidote that's offered is like, well, we should teach kids about growth mindset and grit and agency. Then you might be overlooking, you know, the massive problem that stands in the way much more so, which is, you know, terrible classrooms, like terrible curriculum, no computers, like no, no, none of the things that your kids and my kids have.”
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