Career
The teacher who cashed in her pension
In 1975, a Chicago teacher spent her 5,000-dollar pension on a school for children others had written off. Research and a book billed as a bestseller show how far belief carries a child, and where it stops.
Major #15: Elementary EducationThe story: Marva Collins (1970s). The book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck.
In this lesson
- Fourteen years in other people’s classrooms
- Four students on the second floor
- What the research says
- The book: Mindset
- What the evidence says about the book
- Where this comes from
- Try it today
- 4 questions to check yourself