Educational Justice Resources

A Call to Unhook from Deficit and Grit Ideology and to Strive for Structural Ideology in Teacher Education
Paul Gorski explores the educational equity implications of three popular ideological positions that drive teachers’ and teacher educators’ understandings of, and responses to, poverty and economic injustice in schools: deficit ideology, grit ideology, and structural ideology.

"Poverty has a significantly negative effect on one's sense of control over the environment. . . . It's a lack of resources that produces a lack of resilience, not the other way around. . . The biggest predictor of resilience has nothing to do with relationships or attitudes, but everything to do with access to services."