Grit and the Intellectual Virtues Academy on NPR

National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered recently aired a story on “grit” and education that featured site administrator and Loyola Marymount Professor Jason Baehr and the work that he and others are doing to implement an intellectual virtues educational framework at the Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach, a new charter middle school in Long Beach, CA. You can also read a blog post from Baehr on grit and intellectual virtues that discusses their relationship and responds to some issues raised in the article.