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Grit under attack

The Hechinger Report

For more than a year, social justice activists have been attacking one of education’s latest buzzwords: grit. Her theories on grit, which she defines as a combination of passion and persistence, have been popularized by a best-selling book and many magazine articles.

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How one college’s death and rebirth offers lessons for the rest

The Hechinger Report

For much of its history, Antioch was ahead of its counterparts in more enviable ways, including its legacy of promoting social justice. “A Antioch publishes the prestigious literary magazine The Antioch Review. At Antioch, said Alana Guth, a senior psychology major from Michigan, “We’ve already closed.