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...their intellectual growth." Over the past couple of years, Dweck has helped run an experimental workshop with New York City public school seventh-graders to do just that. Dubbed Brainology, the unorthodox approach uses basic neuroscience to teach kids how the brain works and how it can continue to develop throughout life. "The message is that everything is within the kids' control, that their intelligence is malleable," says Lisa Blackwell, a research scientist at Columbia University who has worked with Dweck to develop and run the program, which has helped increase the students' interest in school and turned around their...
...upper middle class, reasonably safe economically but not so safe that a bad break couldn't spell catastrophe, who are most driven to improve their lot. "It's called status anxiety," says anthropologist Lowe, "and whether you're born to be concerned about it or not, you do develop...
...suffering students. Cheating was common, and most students shrugged it off as only a minor problem. A number of parents--some of whose children carried a 4.0 average--sought to have their kids classified as special-education students, which would entitle them to extra time on standardized tests. "Kids develop their own moral code," says Demerath. "They have a keen sense of competing with others and are developing identities geared to that...
...Adkins’s candidacy reflects his worries that the council did not adequately consider residents’ needs during the negotiations. The University reached a last-minute deal with the council in October 2003, receiving permission to develop graduate student housing in Riverside in return for providing community benefits. Residents say the closed-door negotiation process left them little time to weigh in on the result...
...style housing assignments. Lottery incoming freshmen into a House before their arrival at Harvard, and they will grow attached to their soon-to-be residential communities during their first year. But even Yale-style housing constitutes a woefully incomplete recipe for real House community; for a given freshman to develop an affinity for his House—grounded in anything other than propinquity-by-necessity—House life must be rich enough to win his affections away from the myriad student organizations that claw at undergraduates’ time and loyalties. Most recently, the debate has turned to House...