Educational policy makers, philanthropic foundations, and school reformers have struggled for years with the difficulty of improving the quality of public education, especially among the most economically distressed districts. In[...]

Duckworth, Angela. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. (New York: Scribner, 2016). Grit Intrigued by the question of why some individuals excel and others fail to reach their potential,[...]

Santoro, Doris A. Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay (Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2018). Demoralized  The author draws upon interviews with beginning and[...]