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Making America Smarter

Link: http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-18/40resnick.h18

Author Lauren Resnick claims that American schools are trapped in a set of beliefs about the nature of ability and aptitude that makes it hard to evoke academic effort from students and educators. She makes a distinction between "being smart" and "getting smart" and offers a set of principles by which schools could organize for effort-based learning.

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• Network/channel: Classroom Instruction: Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition: Teaching About Effort

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