Analysis Of The Secret To Raising Smart Kids

Dweck, Carol S. “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids.” Collections, 12th ed., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015, pp. 21–26.
Dweck states that there are many characteristics that separate students success the main one being mindset. She continues proving that there are two different types of mindset in a student one being fixed mindset the other being malleable mindset. The study showed that fixed mindset student tend to not take risk and challenge themselves because they are scared they won’t get praised anymore if they fail. While malleable mindsets tend to challenge themselves therefore become more knowledgeable and surpass the fixed mindset in testing and learning skills. Students who read this article can be encouraged to

try and challenge themselves because they will see a positive view from this article. This mindset idea that Dweck presents contrast the idea that Gladwell projected in the citation below which he believes that the schools methods of teaching are what affect the students capabilities to learn. Dweck study shows us that students can be successful but they have to know what mindset to have in order to be successful students.
Gladwell, Malcolm. “Marita's Bargain.” Collections, 12th ed., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015, pp.3-14.
Malcolm Gladwell discuss the main reason why low income students are less successful than the more wealthy ones. The reason being that because US schools are accustomed to long summer vacation which the low income students don’t use to learn. Therefore they retain less or lose a part of their knowledge that they learned the previous year while the wealthy ones don’t fall back because they tend to be more engaged in learn even in the summer. Gladwell also introduces the concepts that KIPP schools use and which has them made their low income students successful. He continues to state that the reason why KIPP schools are successful is because they have their students be more engaged in learn by using their method “SSLANT” and giving the students a shorter summer. Students and teachers should be in support of theses methods in order to guarantee their academic success. Schools should start looking into theses methods or implementing theses methods to help their students. In contrast to Carol S. Dweck study about characteristics need to to be a smarter kid say that it requires the majority input of the student while Gladwell studies show that the school should have a major input in a student's success.