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 ...

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 ...

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the field of education — and professors at Harvard are doing their best to chart a course in the uncertain waters.

Did you know that intelligence can be categorized in eight different ways? Dr. Howard Gardner, a developmental psychologist at Harvard, developed the multiple intelligences (MI) theory back in 1983.

Howard Gardner has been a proponent of what he has named "multiple intelligences." Schoolwork typically emphasizes linguistic (of a certain kind) and logico-mathematical skills, developed through ...

The idea of intelligence —that human beings possess, to varying degrees, an innate and universal ability to learn—has taken a beating in recent decades. Ever since Stephen J. Gould’s Mismeasurement of ...

Going to school in England during the 1950s, I came to accept the idea that intellectual ability is pretty much all of one piece—you have a lot or you have a little. In fact, the entire United Kingdom ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Recently, I heard the comment, “I don’t think she’s that smart or has the expertise for her ...