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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The theory of multiple intelligences, which turns 20 this year, remains popular even as skeptics question author Howard Gardner's claims. In 1983, when Howard Gardner published Frames of Mind, the ...

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 ...

Decades ago, I was thrilled to chat with renowned psychologist Howard Gardner, who conceived the concept of multiple intelligences. He posits that everyone has not just a single general ability but ...

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 ...

Using these pre-assessments will give teachers an idea of where they are starting with their students at the beginning of the year. In The New York Times, Dr. Susan Demirsky Allan, assistant ...

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 ...