The growth mindset was intended to help close achievement gaps, not hide them.
I think Dweck is admitting here that the "growth mindset" is more of a political movement than a psychological theory.
Agreed, in part: possibly it's more of a
marketing movement... taking a research-based and rather broadly accepted motivational theory from the field of psychology from one Stanford professor's work (mindset) and stretching it almost beyond recognition (and apparently beyond the original research) to support the
rather dubious assertions of another Stanford professor (Jo Boaler), in the field of educational pedagogy.
