But schools have experience creating classes that raise test scores. Figuring out the best way to help youths develop “grit” Schools have extensive experience

But schools have experience creating classes that raise test scores. Figuring out the best way to help youths develop “grit” Schools have extensive experience developing "grit". Go out to the football field or basketball court and those same knuckleheads are showing more 'grit' than anyone in the chess club. The reason they don't have 'grit' with respect to academics is because they aren't interested. Getting them interested is mainly fodder for cliche-ridden Hollywood claptrap.