Howard Gardner

Too many of them are alienated from their institutions. Here’s what to do about it.

Undergraduates should start and finish their education with a course tackling the “big questions of life.”

Recommendation letters don’t generally reflect candid professional judgments, but here are some tips on making them at least a little more helpful.

The topic of work has long been the subject of academic study. Indeed, from their beginnings in the 18th and 19th centuries, the disciplines of economics and sociology accorded labor, production, and the organization -- and organizations -- of work a primary place in their firmament of concerns.…

American education is at a turning point. There are considerable pressures to move very sharply in the direction of “uniform schooling”; there is also the possibility that our educational system can embrace “individual-centered schooling.” A struggle is under way at this moment about the probable…

During the past year I’ve found myself in a number of deeply disturbing situations that amount to nothing less than educational fraud. Until now these situations have seemed sufficiently isolated that I have kept them to myself, mentioning them in passing to only a few friends and associates. But…

Despite the plethora of reports and articles about school reform during the past decade, there has been distressingly little genuine dialogue between the two principal participants in the discussion. On the one hand are the educational researchers and policy experts, who are pleased that at last…

The recent “Education Summit” convened by President Bush reflected all too well our ambivalence about setting a single set of educational standards in this country. Acknowledging the need for some “uniformity,” the President and the assembled governors called for national educational performance…