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Multiple Intelligences

• Application of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences to Second Language Learners in Classroom Situations
  This paper argues for the "nurture" side of the "nature versus nurture" debate of the nature of intelligence. It argues for the theory of multiple intelligences in relation to sociocultural and cognitive perspectives of second language learning.
• Expectations Great and Small: The Mental Maps of Teachers and Systems
  Discusses how high and low expectations are communicated to British students both directly by what teachers say and indirectly through the systems and processes through which teachers work. Examines racial and social biases and notes that expectations can be self-fulfilling prophesies.
• Improving Upper Grade Math Achievement via the Integration of a Culturally Responsive Curriculum
  This report describes an intervention program for increasing mathematical achievement of African American students. Within the targeted population, it was evident that the disparity in math achievement between African American and White students was increasing each year.
• Multiple intelligences in the classroom
  This book (second edition) is an adaptation of Howard Gardener's theory on multiple intelligences (MI). The model in this book provides a language for talking about the inner gifts of so-called learning-disabled children.