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Carol Dweck, congrats!

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We are big fans of the work of Carol Dweck on the growth mindset and now she has won a prize for it with a huge research budget attached!

It’s the first prize awarded in a competition launched last year by Chinese technology billionaire Charles Chen Yidan that is intended to “empower the change-makers in education, build a global community of education leaders and, ultimately, create long-lasting, enlightening impacts on mankind as a whole.” The award, which includes a $1.9 million cash award and an equal-size project fund, is the largest financial prize in education research.

Read all about it: HERE

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The lack of Dyscalculia Awareness

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 According
to Butterworth, Varma and Laurillard
(2011), the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) had spent $107.2 million funding
dyslexia research in the United States
since 2000, but had spent only $2.3
million on dyscalculia research.

Read all about it: HERE

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Oh the memories

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A very interesting article by John Hawthorne in our link for today. He highlights some common things about the memory that we may not be aware of.

For our purposes a great point is that he highlights that learning something by rote is very difficult. His quote:

Simply put, the human memory isn’t particularly good at rote memorization.

Read all about it: HERE

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