There’s a scene in the 1988 movie "Stand and Deliver," where high school math teacher Jaime Escalante (played by Edward James Olmos) argues with the head of the school’s math program about the ...

At the beginning of the school year, Milton Elementary-Middle math teacher Annette Bodin gives her third grade students an eraser with their name on it. They read “The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes” ...

A blend of family attitudes, cultural ideas, and frustration often lead students to believe that math ability is a fixed trait like eye color, teachers say. They believe they are either born with the ...

LAKEWOOD, Ohio - Going into the current school year, Hayes Elementary School Principal Sandy Powers endeavored to institute a growth mindset in her students. "Back in August, I put a committee ...

Psychologists distinguish between “fixed” and “growth” mindsets. As the terms imply, having a fixed mindset means innate and immutable, such that a person with a fixed mindset believes their abilities ...