The mental health of teenagers across the United States has grown steadily worse for more than a decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating the trend. The most recent data from the U.S. Centers ...

When Carol Dweck’s book Mindset came out in 2006, it radically transformed the way people thought about working with young people. Mindset sold over 2 million copies. Whole organizations were created ...

It's been more than 30 years since psychologist Carol Dweck introduced "growth mindset"—the psychological and motivational effects of believing that a person's ability in any domain is not fixed but ...

Just two emails, at the right time with the right message, can make a big difference for students who are the first in their families to go to college. A recent Washington State University study ...

Give students opportunities to be rewarded for demonstrating learning and improvement. Here’s something I wrote about the topic for Character Lab as a Tip of the Week: Unlike most students in my ...

In the last 15 years, millions of dollars have been invested in training students to have a “growth mindset,” the belief that anyone’s intelligence can improve through hard work. But now the merit of ...

Psychologists from Washington State University identified a relationship between how an instructor communicates with students following exams and how first-generation students engage in learning ...

As part of a recent series on “Teaching Gen Z,” at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Beckie Supiano and Beth McMurtrie covered the problems of students struggling to work independently and the ...

Can entrepreneurship be taught? Harvard Business School senior lecturer Reza Satchu thinks so—and he wants more young people to give it a try. On Wednesday, Satchu kicks off the latest iteration of ...

Believing that people rarely change their first impressions might actually help individuals who experience high levels of ...