A just and caring education aims to cultivate both character and intelligence. Peacemakers (like Aristotle, Saint Augustine, and Gandhi) combine an unusually developed sense of compassion and humility with a firm, clear perception of right conduct on which they act with uncommon courage. They fight fire with water whenever possible, but are…

A leadership training institute emphasizing emotional competence has been conducted in 26 nursing education programs with clinical partners. Outcomes have included enhanced education-practice collaboration, professional networking, nurse educators and clinical partners acting as change agents, and integration of leadership experiences into the…

Examination of data from the Infant Health and Development Program, a comprehensive program to avert health and intellectual impairments associated with premature low birthweight, does not show any enduring and meaningful effects on cognitive development resulting from the program. Discusses findings in terms of intelligence and its mutability.…

Studied differences in cognitive processes related to creativity and intelligence using EEG coherence and power measures in the lower and upper alpha bands. Results of 2 experiments involving 49 and 48 right-handed student teachers suggest that creativity and intelligence are different abilities that also differ in the neurological activity…

Explains the relationship between computers and multiple intelligences and explores its potential. Topics include behaviorism and cognitivism; constructivism; multiple representations in the human mind, including various forms of intelligence; individual differences; the challenge of altering early representations; and machine versus human tutors.…

In Britain, University of the First Age Extended Learning Centres use multiple intelligence theory and brain research to provide enrichment activities beyond school hours. Multisensory learning environments, a broad-based learning team, and peer tutoring are featured. (SK)

Reports the effects of a highly structured individually administered remedial teaching program for children with reading difficulties. Argues that the reading accuracy and phonological awareness results are in keeping with the phonological-core variable-difference model of reading disability. Finds no obvious benefit in using IQ to select children…

To adapt instruction to any learning style, teachers should plan lessons for the whole class; correlate plans with specific learners' needs; adapt lessons to specific learners based on nine perspectives (size, time, complexity, participation, environment, input, output, support, and goals); and observe how adaptations work when teaching. (MLH)

Neuropsychology professor Steven Petersen describes what scientists are finding out about brain development, synaptic growth and wiring, intentional and incidental learning, the role of emotion in learning, and declarative and implicit memory systems. Neuroscience has only the broadest outline of principles to offer today's educators. (MLH)

Discusses the demise of educational progressivism and the influence of Howard Gardner's views regarding intelligence and education of elite, private education. Highlights Gardner's new progressive educational ideology and notes the potential dark side of the revival of progressive ideas among elite schools (the more private schools abolish grades…

Discusses educational technology as a form of technical rationality and considers the conflict between practitioners' epistemological position as constructivists and technical rationality. Topics include cybernetics; autonomous systems theory; enactive constructivism; representation versus effective action; mind and memory; enaction in artificial…

Reports on a survey investigating the use of dynamic assessment and other nontraditional techniques among school psychologists (N=226). Results indicated that 39% of respondents reported using dynamic assessment techniques once a year or more. The most frequently endorsed reasons for not using dynamic assessment were lack of knowledge and time…

This article reviews scientific definitions and social implications of "intelligence" in the context of plans of the American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) to rename their organization and the diagnostic category to "intellectual disabilities". It is felt that such a change would associate the AAMR with those…

Examines the relation of scientific research on intelligence to issues of public policy by reviewing a critical analysis of the Infant Health and Development Program, an early intervention program for low birth weight infants. Early intervention research can play an important role in shaping public policy. (SLD)

Uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for 1,943 full siblings and 129 half-siblings to study genetic and shared environmental influences on IQ, education, and income. Results suggest that social inequality in the United States has its origins in genetically based traits and in different environmental backgrounds. (SLD)