Education circles are abuzz with a new concept: that resilience and persistence are just as important as intelligence to predicting student success and achievement. But can "grit" actually be taught?

When you praise children for being smart, you expect them to fearlessly conquer new academic challenges because they believe they're smart. But many psychologists and educators claim the opposite is true: that labeling kids as

Most educators, policymakers, and parents agree that today's students need a mix of knowledge, skills, and dispositions to prepare them to be successful and engaged citizens. Given that students need

A journalist explores the possibility that cognitive exercises improve working memory and problem solving.

Individuals who engage in cognitive exercise, the company claims, will be “better able to stay focused, ignore distractions, plan next steps, remember instructions and start and finish tasks.” The pool of people who could benefit from such training is vast, the site suggests: “children and adults with attention deficits or learning disorders, victims of brain injury or stroke, and adults experiencing information overload or the natural effects of aging.”

The Things That Linger After They've Forgotten Everything You Taught

1. How You Make Students Feel

2. The Discoveries They Make About Themselves

3. The Networks, Communities, Habits, & Tools You Help Them Discover & Use

4. Learning Strategies

5. Reading Habits

Being the favorite is an enviable position, but it comes with the burden of high expectations. Bradford Tuckfield explains why favorites sometimes withdraw from competition when they're behind. Whe...

Focusing only on individualized learning is a mistake — educators and students alike benefit from learning communities. In the best of all possible worlds, educators experience both personalized and collaborative professional learning. 

Angela Lee Duckworth, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, became famous (famous for an academic, at least) for her theory of “grit”—the notion that long-term passion and perseverance in pursuit of one’s goals was a key ingredient for student success.

Parents and teachers wrestle with all the time: Should we be making learning easier for kids—or harder? The answer, according to research in cognitive science and psychology, is both.

Carol Dweck's growth mindset research can lead to greater collaboration among co-teachers and help all students in inclusion classrooms master the Common Core.

Strategies to help you integrate basic differentiation into your classroom. 

Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck’s work on growth mindsets has dominated much of the attention around how students can influence their own learning. But there are other ways to help students tap into their own motivation, too. Here are a few other important mindsets to consider.

"Anyone who’s read Dan Pink’s book Drive or viewed the related TED Talk, understands that extrinsic and intrinsic motivations are not equal. Intrinsic motivators have a profoundly greater effect on engagement, it’s through intrinsic interests that people achieve great things. The ideal class would have every student engaged in productive, stimulating and interesting work 100% of the time. Of course that’s purely an ideal, but ideals can act as guides."