Why It’s So Laborious to Escape the Narrative of ‘Grit’ in Training

A brand new ebook by Alissa Quart known as “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream,” seems to be at why narratives of self-reliance—even in ones in youngsters’s literature like “Little Home on the Prairie”—are so arduous to shake. And he or she proposes extra community-minded options that would enhance instructional fairness.

This week’s episode is a bonus installment of our Bootstraps podcast collection that targeted on fairness extra broadly. We’re stepping again to evaluate the important thing themes of the primary season of the collection, and have a look at what’s modified since we reported among the controversies we dug into.

The largest growth occurred prior to now few months, with the controversy of a controversial change to the admissions system on the best-ranked public highschool within the nation, Thomas Jefferson Excessive Faculty for Science and Expertise, or TJ, proper exterior of Washington, D.C. Since that episode about TJ ran final 12 months, a lawsuit over the brand new admissions system has gone all the best way to the Supreme Court docket—and we let you already know what motion the court docket took.

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