Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Subtract the shame from learning math. Add affirmation and hope

To the editor: Stanford professor Jo Boaler is hopeful about new approaches to teaching math, and I am hopeful too. In school, I encountered the wall of indifference in learning math that Boaler talks ...
The Conversation

Do positive affirmations work? A psychologist unpacks the evidence

Self-affirmation theory was proposed by psychologist Claude Steele in the late 1980s and remains popular today. The theory suggests we have a deep desire to craft a personal narrative that we are ...
Yahoo

Letters to the Editor: Subtract the shame from learning math. Add affirmation and hope

A student works on problems during a 12th-grade math class at Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles in 2019. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: Stanford professor Jo Boaler is hopeful ...