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Aug16
Educational Tracking Creates Artificial Inequalities Among Students
Aug15
Forget the Bling: High Status-Signaling Deters New Friendships
Washington, DC - When it comes to making new friends, status symbols actually repel people from making friends with us, according to new research published...
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Aug20
Growth Mindset Interventions Yield Impressive Results
A growth mindset is the belief that intellectual abilities are not fixed, but can be developed. Do students who are taught a growth mindset earn...
Aug20
Schools Are Buying 'Growth Mindset' Interventions Despite Scant Evidence That They Work Well
Ten years ago, after over two decades of research on this topic, Carol Dweck – the Stanford University developer of “mindset theory” – concluded, “what...
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