There’s a good article in the latest Educational Leadership: “The Perils and Promise of Praise”. It’s by Carol Dweck.
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Alfie Kohn has some of the same ideas. He writes about how we rob kids of their love of learning by offering them rewards for what they actually are already motivated to do.