Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck has been awarded the Yidan Prize for Education Research, a new $4 million international award for her long-term research on the effects of mindset on ...

“A growth mindset is not a panacea, but it does empower kids and help them learn.” - Carol Dweck, psychologist and author That’s what Carol Dweck says her work is all about. The Stanford University ...

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A Stanford University researcher is among two inaugural winners of the biggest prize in education circles, receiving nearly $4 million for her research on the ability to learn. Carol Dweck, a ...

Carol S. Dweck says that her graduate students here at Stanford University are hard-working, creative, and resilient in the face of failure. But she wouldn’t call them smart. Over the last two decades ...

One of the biggest buzzwords in education these days is “mind-set” — the notion that some students are held back by a belief that they don’t have what it takes, especially in math and science. The ...

Carol Dweck, Stanford’s Lewis and Eaton Professor of Psychology, is the inaugural recipient of the Yidan Prize for Educational Research. Dweck’s research has focused on identifying two different ...

Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Nudge About Carol Dweck's TED Talk Carol Dweck finds that the words adults use to describe kids' progress affects the children's belief in their own potential.