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| Truth,
Beauty and Goodness: A Conversation with Howard Gardner |
| Can "The Marriage
of Figaro" teach you all you need to know about beauty? Can
the theory of evolution teach you all you need to know about
truth? Howard Gardner, author of
Multiple Intelligences, talks about the pursuit of truth,
beauty and goodness in education. |
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August 23, 2000
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ARTICLES
"Howard
Gardner, Unfiltered (response to Eberstadt)," Howard Gardner
and responded to by Mary Eberstadt, Policy Review,
Feb-March, 2000.
"Howard Gardner on Making the Most of Young Minds," (interview),
The Education Digest, February, 2000.
"The
Schools They Deserve: Howard Gardner and the Remaking of Elite
Education," Mary Eberstadt, Policy Review, Oct-Nov.
1999.
"Two Views on How to Get Johnny to Read and Think," Howard
Gardner and E.D. Hirsch, The New York Times, September
11, 1999.
WEB SITES
Howard
Gardner's home page
Project
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| No
More SATs? |
| Richard Atkinson,
the president of the University of California, recently announced
he wants to end the use of the SAT in admissions to the state
university system. Atkinson asserted that the SATs are fundamentally
flawed as tests, and that "America's overemphasis on the SAT
is compromising our educational system." Scholar Michael
Kirst discusses the future of standardized testing in the
college admissions process. |
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March 7, 2001
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"Eliminating the SAT Could Derail the Progress
of Minority Students," John McWhorter, The Chronicle of
Higher Education, March 9, 2001.
"Is This the End for the SAT?" Gary M. Lavergne,
The New York Times, March 4, 2001.
"Call to Eliminate SAT Requirement May Reshape Debate on Affirmative
Action," Jeffrey Selingo and Jeffrey Brainard, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2, 2001.
"Dropping the SAT Is an Excuse to Drop Standards," Virginia
Postrel,
Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2001.
"SAT Is to Admissions as Inadequate Is to¸" The
Washington Post, February 25, 2001.
"Is This the End for the SAT?" Andrew Goldstein, Time,
February 20, 2001.
"Head of U. of California Seeks to End SAT Use in Admissions,"
Diana Jean Schemo, The
New York Times, February 17, 2001.
WEB SITE
The
Bridge Project: Strengthening K-16 Transition Policies
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| The
Teaching Gap: Do Other Countries Do it Better? with
James Stigler |
| Most of us have
heard about the international learning gap– students in
many other countries outperform American students, particularly
in math and science. UCLA psychologist James
Stigler thinks he has at least a partial explanation for
the learning gap: he says there's a teaching gap. What can American
teachers learn from teachers around the world? |
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March 5, 2001
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