The education and professional sectors share a historically bonded relationship pitting school and career thresholds against uniquely different human beings. Although experience and research unify to ...

A new online professional development (PD) course for teachers aims to encourage “growth mindset” classroom cultures through tweaks to existing pedagogical practices like assignment feedback and first ...

A central part of 'growth mindset' is that the mind is like a muscle that can get stronger with hard work, rather than a fixed thing. A large nationwide study has found that teaching ninth graders to ...

As I document in Education and the Commercial Mindset, Milton Friedman and his disciples contended for decades that private markets could deliver better schooling than governments. In the 1990s, this ...

This post is by Jennifer Poon, Director of the Innovation Lab Network at the Council of Chief State School Officers. Share your thoughts with Jennifer on Twitter at @JDPoon or #CCSSOILN. Why do we not ...

Having a positive mindset in math may do more than just help students feel more confident about their skills and more willing to keep trying when they fail; it may prime their brains to think better.

THE flood-control mess keeps spawning look-alikes: programs heavy on money and discretion but light on transparency. We’ve also seen how the executive and legislative can, at times, collaborate in ...

A do-it-yourself mindset is changing the face of education worldwide, according to new survey results. Learners are "patching together" their education from a "menu of options," including ...