Some years ago, as I passed through the Center for Teaching and Learning at the private college where I’d been asked to give a workshop for faculty on writing and publishing, I saw a big stack of ...

Education researchers at Stanford University have released a new set of video tutorials showing teachers and parents how to help students develop a “growth mindset” — a belief that their intelligence ...

Kaitlin Gallagher is a PhD Candidate specializing in Biomechanics in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a permanent author for GradHacker. You can follow her on ...

Don’t make up your mind about this until all the facts are in. A fixed mindset can sidetrack your career – especially if you’re working for someone who views his or her subordinates as incapable of ...

During my years teaching science in middle school, high school and college, some of my students have resisted teaching that ...

This week one of my clients referred to herself as “such a terrible procrastinator“. Her tone was filled with doubt about the likelihood that she would achieve her next-level goals. This is a woman ...

“Are you fit to be president?” is one of the most common campaign standbys presidential candidates get asked. This election has proven to be one that considers that question very seriously — from both ...

Teaching students the science of how their brains change over time can help them see intelligence as something they can develop, rather than innate and unchangeable, finds a new analysis of 10 ...

It turns out, you can. What’s more, this change flies in the face of almost everything we’ve been told by so-called experts about raising successful kids–at least for the past 15 years or more. It’s ...