"Joyce Burges had a problem. Her 13-year-old son's failing grades were about to get him expelled. The school counselor gave her little choice: Send him to a private school or bus him to the only other public school in her Baker, Louisiana, district, nearly 45 minutes away."
This digest discusses the origins of Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, his definition of intelligence, the incorporation of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences into the classroom, and its role in alternative assessment practices.