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Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University. He was a founding member of Harvard Project Zero in 1967 and held leadership roles at that research center from 1972 to 2023.
"Howard Gardner became a national leader of an effort to reclaim the strain of progressivism that championed students’ joy in learning without denying the importance of academic disciplines and to cleanse progressivism of its earlier association with IQ testing, curricular differentiation, anti-intellectualism, and life adjustment education".
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
— Anton Chekhov, Russian author and playwright (15 July [O.S. 2 July] 1904), to his wife, Olga "Thy will be done." [22] — Lew Wallace, American lawyer, politician, Union general and author (15 February 1905) "That was the right prayer." [12]: 119 — Jay Cooke, American financier (16 February 1905), having overheard a prayer for the dead
In private, his wife addressed him as Nicki, in the German manner, rather than Коля (Kolya), which is the East Slavic short form of his name. The "short name" (Russian: краткое имя kratkoye imya), historically also "half-name" (Russian: полуимя poluimya), is the simplest and most
Russian given names are provided at birth or selected during a name change. Orthodox Christian names constitute a fair proportion of Russian given names, but there are many exceptions including pre-Christian Slavic names, Communist names, and names taken from ethnic minorities in Russia .
Gardner is a surname of English, Scottish and Irish origin. [1] Most sources say it is an occupational surname that comes from the word " gardener ". [ 2 ] Other sources claim that it is derived from the old English words gar-dyn meaning "warrior", "one who bears arms". [ 3 ]
Robert Rietti, OMRI (8 February 1923 – 3 April 2015), of Italian-Jewish descent; [74] over 200 film credits to his name, prominent in post-production work in the James Bond series, Lawrence of Arabia, Once Upon a Time in America, and The Guns of Navarone. Andrew Sachs (1930–2016), actor [14] Emma Samms (born 1960) [75] Danny Schwarz (born ...