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  • Researchers Challenge ‘Idea of Intelligence’ in the Classroom

    New America Media, Kate ODonnell|Nov 27, 2012

    For low-income and minority middle school students across America the message is, all too often, “you can’t.” It’s reinforced in the classroom, in the media, among peers, and it’s also the message from education statistics: high school dropout rates are uneven by district, college grades remain stubbornly unequal. But researchers from Stanford are aiming to turn that message on its head by borrowing from an oft-heard expression: when you think you can, you can. In pairs of short, 25-minute...