Work Hard, Be Hard Quotes

“A related character approach that operates under the trade name Brainology claims that one thousand schools are now using its “growth mind-set” based on Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset (2006). Dweck’s work is included on the suggested reading list used by Levin and Duckworth for their online course mentioned above. Brainology cites unpublished research that shows teaching the growth mind-set “boosts motivation and achievement”
― Jim Horn, Work Hard, Be Hard: Journeys Through "No Excuses" Teaching

“Levin and Duckworth are two of the cofounders of Character Lab, which uses Duckworth’s experimental work at the Upper Darby School District near the University of Pennsylvania to fine-tune the character performance interventions that Levin initiated at KIPP schools in the early 2000s. Interestingly, much of the research that is used to justify the use of the Seligman-Duckworth resiliency improvement methodology is the same data offered to justify the Seligman deal that cost the U.S. Army $145 million (see chapter 1) for interventions that brought no benefit to GIs suffering from the stresses of war. We may wonder how much these alleged remedies for children might cost federal and state education departments, whose bankrolls are much smaller than those at the Pentagon.”
― Jim Horn, Work Hard, Be Hard: Journeys Through "No Excuses" Teaching

“It’s like the Peace Corps. But, you know, creepier. —D. Chernicoff, Yale Daily News (2006)”
― Jim Horn, Work Hard, Be Hard: Journeys Through "No Excuses" Teaching

“We found that altruism is a strong motivator for cheating. Based upon these results we could speculate that people who work for ideological organizations such as political groups and not-for-profits might actually feel more comfortable bending the moral rules—because they are doing it for a good cause and to help others” (p. 232).”
― Jim Horn, Work Hard, Be Hard: Journeys Through "No Excuses" Teaching

“At the KIPP Endeavor Academy in Kansas City, for instance, 80 percent of KIPP teachers were TFA Corps Members in 2014.”
― Jim Horn, Work Hard, Be Hard: Journeys Through "No Excuses" Teaching

“When Bill Gates delivered a TED talk in 2009 on two of the world’s most pressing problems, malaria and bad teachers,”
― Jim Horn, Work Hard, Be Hard: Journeys Through "No Excuses" Teaching

“Duckworth, herself, grew up the daughter of privileged Chinese immigrants in the middle-class town of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and she studied neuroscience as an undergraduate at Harvard (Hartnett, 2012). After a masters at Oxford and then a year at McKinsey and Co., Duckworth became the CEO of the online public school rating company, Great Schools, before she altered course to become a charter school teacher on both the West and East coasts.”
― Jim Horn, Work Hard, Be Hard: Journeys Through "No Excuses" Teaching