Growth mindset theory,the idea that intelligence is malleable and can grow, has taken the education world by storm in the past decade as a way of motivating students academically. One fan is a Harvard doctoral candidate who read Carol Dweck’s best-selling book, or “Mindset,” in 2008 when she was teaching low-income teens in novel York […]The post Telling depressed kids they’re capable of change might back them improve appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
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