Grit: Knowing When to Quit

Grit: Knowing When to Quit

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 178 , Segment 2

Episode: Expensive Art, Grit, Mid-East, Red Meat and Cancer

  • Nov 12, 2015 10:00 pm
  • 13:00 mins

Guest: Gale Lucas, PhD, Senior Research Associate for the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California  We celebrate “grit” in our athletes, our leaders, our literary heroes – and often encourage it in our kids. But there are times when sticking with something in the face of adversity is not a good thing. That’s according to some new results in the Journal of Research in Personality.

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Teacher Quality

20 MINS

Guest: Kate Walsh, President of the National Council on Teacher Quality  A few months into the school year now, and we’re going to address an issue we touched on at the start – the teacher shortage. Hopefully, by now, your child’s class has a teacher and not a perpetual substitute. Back in August we were hearing that a number of large urban districts across the country were struggling to fill all their slots with just days before classes started. But we also learned, in that initial conversation, that talking about a national teacher shortage isn’t very helpful, because the situation varies dramatically from state to state and district to district. A more important conversation centers on how to ensure our children are being taught by the most qualified teachers possible.

Guest: Kate Walsh, President of the National Council on Teacher Quality  A few months into the school year now, and we’re going to address an issue we touched on at the start – the teacher shortage. Hopefully, by now, your child’s class has a teacher and not a perpetual substitute. Back in August we were hearing that a number of large urban districts across the country were struggling to fill all their slots with just days before classes started. But we also learned, in that initial conversation, that talking about a national teacher shortage isn’t very helpful, because the situation varies dramatically from state to state and district to district. A more important conversation centers on how to ensure our children are being taught by the most qualified teachers possible.