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Khan Academy: The Learning Myth: Why I'll Never Tell My Son He's Smart
By: Salman Khan Update: This Op-ed was part of a Khan Academy initiative to change how people think about learning. Since then we have launched LearnStorm, a free Common Core math challenge for 3rd-12th graders in the Bay Area to give parents, teachers and students a hand-on way to practice better learning mindsets. If you’re a parent, teacher or student in the Bay Area you can sign up for LearnStorm here. My 5-year-old son has just started reading. Every night, we lie on his bed and he reads a short book to me. Inevitably, he’ll hit a word that he has trouble with: last night the word was “gratefully.” He eventually got it after a fairly painful minute. He then said, “Dad, aren’t you glad how I struggled with that word? I think I could feel my brain growing.” I smiled: my son was now verbalizing the tell-tale signs of a “growth mindset.” But this wasn’t by accident. Recently, I put into practice research I had…