Education Is All in Your Mind
AS Department of Education officials consider how best to spend billions from the economic stimulus plan, they would be wise to pay attention to which programs actually help children’s achievement — and keep in mind that sometimes very small influences in children’s lives can have very big effects.
Consider, for example, what the social psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson have described as “stereotype threat,” which hampers ...
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I'd like to hear more debate on this topic from other education experts about programs which work or which don't. I doubt if there's as much consensus as it appears from reading a single article!