During the 1980s, I was teaching in Philadelphia’s Quaker school system. Highly regarded for their progressive approach to learning, Friends schools were on the cutting edge of educational reform in ...

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 ...

This story was originally published on December 11, 2000. Author Howard Gardner is the father of "multiple intelligences" theory. The Hobbs professor of cognition and education at the Harvard Graduate ...

Howard Gardner's brilliant conception of individual competence has changed the face of education in the twenty-three years since the publication of his classic work, Frames of Mind. Since then ...

Howard Gardner, Hobbs professor of education and cognition at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, received an offer recently from a lawyer in Quito, Ecuador. For just $600, the man said, he ...

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 ...

One of the most respected voices in education reform was once a shy, introspective student from Scranton. A graduate of Wyoming Seminary in Kingston and the University of Harvard, Howard Gardner, Ph.D ...

BLOOM, MEET GARDNER: Whether you’re a fan of Bloom’s Taxonomy or Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, the array of iPads tools appropriate for implementing each of these academic ...

According to Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, humans have several different ways of processing information, such as spatial, interpersonal and logical-mathematical -- and these ways ...

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 ...