Education News Roundup
Dual-language in Washington State - a view from Seattle Globalist. A MacArthur Genius award went to an educational researcher , Angela Duckworth. From Ed Week: Educational research psychologist and former teacher Angela Duckworth has devoted her career to understanding traits beyond IQ or test-taking abilities that predict a student's success— including grit and self-control. It is perhaps her own possession of these traits that helped lead the MacArthur Foundation to name Ms. Duckworth as one of this year's 24 MacArthur Fellows . Duckworth and her colleagues began by developing ways to empirically measure grit and self-control. Even when controlling for cognitive ability, the presence of these traits were important predictors of success. Unlike simple measures of IQ or natural intelligence, these are traits that can be taught. From Ed Week, an article , Misdiagnosis in the Gifted (sure to start a fight here but I hope not). As information f...