The Merrow Report- Program 4-1 (guests)

PROGRAM 4-1

PART 1 (15:00)
TRUTH BEAUTY AND GOODNESS: A Conversation with Howard Gardner

PART 2 (19:30)
NO MORE SATs?
PART 3 (15:30)
THE TEACHING GAP: DO OTHER COUNTRIES DO IT BETTER? with James Stigler

Part 1

TRUTH BEAUTY AND GOODNESS: A Conversation with Howard Gardner

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	Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and Co-Director of Harvard Project Zero. Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. He is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments. Gardner is the author of eighteen books which have been translated into twenty languages. His two most recent books are The Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand (Simon & Schuster, 1999) and Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century (BasicBooks, 1999).

Part 2
NO MORE SATs?
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	Dr. Michael Kirst is a professor of Education, Business Administration and Political Science at Stanford University. He brings years of personal experience in government education policymaking--at both federal and state levels--to his classrooms and research. He is co-director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), a research consortium including Stanford, UC Berkeley, and USC. In this capacity, Dr. Kirst is at the forefront of the PACE agenda to provide analysis and assistance to California policymakers to help build an ongoing picture of California education, including information on student enrollment, performance, curriculum, human and fiscal resources, and school reform. This is accomplished through analysis and dissemination of papers on educational policy issues. His publications include "Bridging Education Research and Education Policymaking" in the Oxford Education Review (2001); "Bridging the Remediation Gap" in Education Week (1998); The Political Dynamics of American Education (with Fred Wirt, 1997); "New Demands for Educational Accountability" in Handbook of Research on Educational Administration (1998); "Redefining the Role and Responsibilities of Local School Boards" in The New American Urban School District (1995); "Setting Standards for Student Achievement" in Issues in Science and Technology (1995).

PART 3
THE TEACHING GAP: DO OTHER COUNTRIES DO IT BETTER? with James Stigler
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	James W. Stigler is Professor of Psychology at UCLA and Director of the TIMSS video studies. He is co-author of two recent books: The Teaching Gap (with James Hiebert, Free Press, 1999) and The Learning Gap (with Harold Stevenson, Simon & Schuster, 1992). He received his A.B. from Brown University in 1976, a Masters in Education from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977, and a Ph.D in Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1982. Before moving to Los Angeles in 1991, he served eight years on the faculty of the University of Chicago. He has received numerous awards for his research, including Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989 and the QuEST award from the American Federation of Teachers in 1995. Dr. Stigler is best known for his observational work in classrooms, and has pioneered the use of multimedia technology for the study of classroom instruction.

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