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Ethics at Work: The Importance of Academic Honesty in Our Schools, Part III
by Wendy Fischman In the previous two blogs (Part I and Part II), I reflected on the recent admissions cheating scandal in light of our earlier research of young workers and our large, national study of higher education. In this blog, I describe some takeaways based on our study—ways we might begin to address these […]
Ethics at Work: The Importance of Academic Honesty in our Schools, Part II
by Wendy Fischman In the previous blog, I discussed the recent admissions scandal in higher education. I drew on our research conducted in the late 1990s: we described how easily young people justified cutting corners in order to get ahead and/or satisfy pressures to be “successful.” In this blog, I relate this work to our […]
A Tribute for Howard Gardner’s Retirement
Howard Gardner is officially retiring from his teaching duties at the Harvard Graduate School of Education the end of the 2018-2019 academic year, although he will continue to be a research professor and carry on with his current projects. To mark the occasion, HGSE has released a tribute in his honor by two of his […]
Ethics at Work: The Importance of Academic Honesty in Our Schools, Part I
by Wendy Fischman Recently, an egregious scandal erupted in higher education. For perhaps the first time, several dozen parents have been exposed for blatant wrongdoings—paying others to change answers on standardized test scores; fabricating identities and resumes of their own children to disguise them as top tier athletes; paying coaches on the side to “recruit” […]
Gardner Interviewed by National Art Education Association
In March 2019, Howard Gardner presented at the annual convention of the National Art Education Association (NAEA) as a keynote speaker on “Beyond Wit and Grit,” tying together multiple intelligences (MI) theory with his decades on The Good Project. NAEA has now released a special interview with Gardner following the convention, in which he answers […]
