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Education Is All in Your Mind
- CalmQuiet 18y agoThis is an analysis of various studies that all point in the same direction: demonstrating how minorities' negative expectations can damage their performance and how simple interventions can largely erase that damage. Of relevance to all of us involved in challenging careers like hacking is the impact that we may have on our own futures when we release ourselves from doubts about our own potentials in demanding, competitive circumstances.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agolinking funding to performance? I seriously doubt a government agency will consider such a wildly logical suggestion.
- tokenadult 18y ago"Fortunately, stereotype threat for blacks and other minorities can be reduced in many ways. Just telling students that their intelligence is under their own control improves their effort on school work and performance." More generally, teaching children about "growth mindset" rather than "fixed mindset" significantly improves their performance. http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/marapr/features/dweck.html http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/marapr/feat...
- alabut 18y agoThe results of one of the studies in that article has been stuck in my head for the year or so since I read it and has definitely made an impact in my life. The idea that just splitting up kids in a class and praising them either for innate intelligence or hard work could yield such drastic differences both in test results and attitude was a real eye-opener. And made me reframe some of the "gifted" education I'd had in my formative years and whether it was more about making kids feel special than rewarding them for hard work.