Howard Gardner is best known for his work on multiple intelligence theory. the theory challenged the notion that a single intelligence existed that could be tested. over the past 25 years gardner has been working with project zero in order to create performance based tests.
the past fourteen years Gardner has been involved with the GoodWork Project. The project looks at how people can create quality engaging and responsible work, during rapidly changing times. Currently the project is focused on the ethics of college and secondary education students.

Maxine Greene Foundation: a not for profit organization based in NY. Primary focus is on :the intersections among various modes of social action and engagements with the arts." $10,000 grants twice a year given to "everyday educators who are capable of inventiveness, and go beyond the standardized and the ordinary." Have a website for educators and artists to discuss ideas and also a Maxine Greene library that contains all of her speeches and excerpts from some of her books.

Howard Gardner and "Project Zero": PZ is a not for profit research group from Harvard University's Grad. School of Education. It's mission is "to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, humanistic and scientific disciplines."
MacArthur Prize Fellowship: commonly called the "genius award". given to 20-40 US citizens/residents of any age for "showing exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work." It's basically an investment in the recipients potential. Awarded $500,000

E.D. Hirsch is an Essentialist whose Goals of Teaching are for students to have a vast knowledge of general core information and facts because this kind of knowledge is universally shared by society and more lasting throughout the ages than other kind of knowledge. He also believes hat the skill of literacy is important because it enables competence. No matter what the cultural background of people is, information rests as his or her fingertip, and factual information because their fingertips if they can read.

E.D. Hirsch believes that there should be little focus on individual talent because if a student's education caters to their particular talent, all of the other subjects will be lacking.
He also believes that there should be little individualization in the curriculum because if the teacher is focusing on a few students because of their certain needs or gifts, the rest of the students will be left out.

Formalism is the belief that learning the tools for learning are more important in the classroom than learning actual knowledge.
Naturalism is the belief that students will and should pick up knowledge by osmosis.

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She has served and continues to serve as a member on many influential discussion panels as well as being the president of two different organizations. She currently holds the William F Russell Chair in the Foundations of Education. Maxine Greene has even opened her own house up to conversations with scholars and issued an open invitation to all teachers in the city.

Mrs. Greene wants and encourages teachers to bring the arts into their classrooms, arts can range any where from literature to music to painting. She believes that having the arts in the classroom gives the students the chance to view the world from different perspectives, to help them wake-up and to imagine what they can do.

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Maxine Greene is an existentialist, believing that individual choice and freedom are the most important aspects to defining ones life. She relays this information through her groundbreaking books. Some of her most influential books include Teacher as Stranger, The Dialectic of Freedom, and Releasing the Imagination. Her major themes include the teacher’s responsibility to help students question what is going on around them, imagination and the arts, having the students become wide-awake and involved, and freedom and choice.

Hey everybody! So, this is our wiki-page...everyone can just post their additions to the handout in bulletin messages and then we can put them all together in the end.