Nicholas Lemman

Howard Gardner

October 20, 1999, 6 PM

Nicholas Lemann reveals the secret history and hidden agenda of the Educational Testing Service and Howard Gardner presents a state-of-the-art report on the theory of multiple intelligences. They both will discuss the state of education and learning at the Arthur M. Sackler Auditorium in Cambridge.

Lemann's The Big Test, a history of the ETS, is superb social history and analysis that not only explains the origins of the inadequate system we are all living with, but asks profound moral and political questions about what makes for a good society, and what condition the United States is in today. A frequent contributor to national magazines, Lemann was national correspondent of The Atlantic Monthly from 1983-98 and is now a staff writer at The New Yorker. His last book was the prizewinning The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991). More information can be found at Lemann's web site.

Gardner, the Harvard psychologist who revolutionized our thinking about intelligence and creativity, now offers in Intelligence Reframed a brilliant state-of-the-art report on how his landmark theory of multiple intelligences is radically changing our understanding of education and human development. For more on Gardner, check out Project Zero, a group working out of Harvard to examine intelligence and creativity.

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