Empowering bullies’ victims
To Stop School Bullying: Fix the Victims, argues Hans Villarica in The Atlantic. He cites a new study in Child Development led by University of Illinois Psychology Professor Karen D. Rudolph that looks...
View ArticlePraise is out
Schools are rejecting self-esteem boosting, reports the Washington Post. It turns out that pumping up students’ self-esteem through easy, unearned praise doesn’t improve their achievement. As schools...
View ArticleTeaching a ‘growth mindset’
Students who believe they can develop their intelligence over time — what Stanford Professor Carol Dweck calls a “growth mindset” — work harder and learn more than classmates who think intelligence is...
View ArticleAsian culture: Struggling shows strength
A Marxist slogan popular in my college days — Dare to struggle, dare to win! — applies to education, according to an NPR story. Struggling in school is seen as a problem in the U.S., but not in Asia....
View ArticleThe dangers of IQ tests
Testing a child’s IQ can pin on a permanent label that denies future learning opportunities, writes Jessica Lahey in an Atlantic review of Scott Barry Kaufman’s Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined. The...
View ArticleMath isn’t just for ‘math people’
“I’m just not a math person” is “the most self-destructive idea in America today,” write Miles Kimball and Noah Smith in The Atlantic. You’re not just limiting your own future. “You may be helping to...
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Less praise, more young scientists
Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don’t Think They’re Smart, write Alexandra Ossola in The Atlantic “For most students, science, math, engineering, and technology (STEM) subjects are not...
View ArticlePrepare to struggle
In a new episode of Inside Quest, psychologist Carol Dweck describes how she helps her Stanford students develop a “growth mindset.” Students must write letters to themselves “from the future,”...
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Effort isn’t enough: Kids have to learn
Psychologist Carol Dweck’s “growth mindset” theory — students work harder and learn more if they believe they can “grow their brains” — is red-hot in the education world. Everyone says they believe in...
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Teach girls to be imperfect
While boys are jumping off the monkey bars, most girls are taught to avoid risk, writes Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani on Medium. Girls do well in school, but aren’t prepared to tackle...
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