Angela Duckworth Named Education Week Public Influencer

For the second year in a row, Angela Duckworth, Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor in the  Department of Psychology and the Wharton School, has been named at the top of Education Week’s Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.

Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance and co-founder of Character Lab, a nonprofit that connects researchers with educators to advance science that improves the lives of children, is widely regarded as having helped shape the national dialogue on child development.

Read the full announcement here.