Angela Duckworth Teacher Education questions

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1	School of Education Teacher Education Conversation with Angela Duckworth
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3			Highly recommend to read this article: Credé, M., Tynan, M. C., & Harms, P. D. (2016, June 16). Much Ado About Grit: A Meta-Analytic Synthesis of the Grit Literature. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000102 "In aggregate our results suggest that interventions designed to enhance grit may only have weak effects on performance and success, that the construct validity of grit is in question, and that the primary utility of the grit construct may lie in the perseverance facet."
4	Elizabeth		I'd be interested to hear about the ways she thinks her work has been misused, poorly applied, or wrongly interpreted at the K-12 school level - particularly in urban settings - also I don't know who posted the link to the article above, but I found it helpful.
5			Duckworth's theory of grit has been criticized as another form of "blaming the victim" and ignoring the social context of low-income students living in poverty. In other words, students' low performance is viewed as lack of effort on their part, or lack of "grit" and not as an outcome of the the larger social and economic reality they have to face (e.g., hunger, lack of resources, etc.). See: https://dianeravitch.net/2014/03/22/lauren-anderson-why-the-focus-on-grit/comment-page-1/. For instance, just recently a report found that teens often trade sex work for food - in a country as wealthy as the U.S (see https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/12/teens-america-hunger-food-poverty). How would Dr. Duckworth respond to those criticisms and what is her view on the overall social context and public policies in supporting student goal setting?
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