When I do school visits, one of the things kids seem most fascinated by is when I tell them there is more than one kind of smart. They are surprised to learn that there are, in fact, at least seven ...

Does your child love to read but hates math? Or is your child great with numbers but can't be bothered with books? Project Education: Edutopia, a partnership between WRAL-TV and the George Lucas ...

The education world gets obsessed sometimes with trying to come up with ways to measure smarts. But today we’re talking with someone who has a history of shaking up the narrative when it comes to ...

Since 1983, people have been talking about “multiple intelligences,” an idea proposed by Howard Gardner, a Harvard developmental psychologist, in his book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple ...

Many people find the idea that there are many different types of intelligence very appealing. Howard Gardner disparages IQ tests as having limited relevance to real life and argued that there may be ...

I am reading A Hunter-Gatherers Guide to the 21 st Century. Heying and Weinstein (2021) ask how a handful of our human ancestors with only Stone Age technology, within just a few tens of thousands of ...

For years, people believed intelligence was just one thing — a score, a number, a measure of how “smart” someone was. But walk into any classroom and you’ll see something completely different. One ...

The push toward group assignments. The rise of portfolios to document student progress. The backlash against the SAT and standardized testing, and the push to consider new ways that colleges might ...