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BIG IDEAS FOR GROWING MINDS

David Yeager

Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin Population Research Center

David Yeager is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center and was formerly a middle school teacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is the principal investigator of the National Study of Learning Mindsets and co-founder of the Mindset Scholars Network. He has no financial interest in growth mindset products or companies. Yeager is a 2020-2022 Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow.

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