A subtle form of control hides in everyday helplessness: when one person overfunctions and another withdraws, leaving ...

What students repeatedly experience and observe in their environment. A Classroom Snapshot On the first day of the fall semester, Maya takes bold notes and blurts out answers before the instructor ...

**CONTENT WARNING** This story mentions the topic of abusive relationships. Sometimes, it’s hard to keep pushing yourself to accomplish something when it feels like you’ve struck out so many ...

Learned helplessness. I’d heard the term before, but conflated it with weaponized incompetence, a phenomenon where someone (usually the male partner in a hetero relationship) exerts little or no ...

This week, we conclude our series on the causes of American students’ reading decline by discussing the impacts of low expectations, weak accountability and learned helplessness. The problems begin ...