Features

Boon, Not Boondock

Although enrollment in rural schools has been on the rise, this education population is still mostly ignored by policymakers, funders, and education researchers who focus primarily on urban and suburban issues. As more and more immigrant families move to small-town America, has the time come to reverse the trend?

15 Minutes Has Turned into 25 Years

Professor Howard Gardner never expected to become an education icon, but 25 years after he added an “s” to the word “intelligence” and debunked the notion that there was only one way to be smart, this is just what he has become.

Kipp’s Trip

He could have taken his Harvard degree and gone anywhere, but Darrell Robes Kipp, Ed.M.’75, returned home to the reservation in Montana, where he was born, to start a school in an effort to save his native language that had all but died out.