Word: siegler
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When evaluating the use of Gardner's theory in schools, it is easy for people to let their emotions run away with them. The notion that a child may have important abilities that are not measured by IQ tests is immensely appealing; it also happens to be true. As Siegler said, "Howard sells hope." Yet this hope ought to be tempered by realism, and a realistic view of MI theory may not justify the enthusiasm it has engendered thus...
...from Coyote Creek, which scores above the district average on standardized tests.) Gardner was saying there is plenty of anecdotal evidence in support of MI but no formal studies. This is not an irredeemable flaw, and others agree with Gardner that MI merits further investigation. "The ideas," says Robert Siegler of Carnegie Mellon University, "have enough support that it would be worthwhile implementing them on a large enough scale to find out if they work." At the moment, however, we don't know that they work...
From the beginning, Ernest and his colleagues were also worried about the explosive ethical questions raised by the use of fetal tissue. Very early on, Ernest approached Dr. Mark Siegler, director of the University of Chicago's MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, for advice. As Siegler and many others saw it, there were no insurmountable barriers to the use of fetal tissue for medical purposes. After all, organs and tissue from brain-dead children and adults are donated for transplantation all the time. And while such deaths are tragic, they are caused not in order to obtain the organs...
...reconstructible heart except for a snowball's chance in hell, we would have advised against it. We take long odds every day, but not crazy odds." Others agree. "The tragic end result does not mean that the right decision was not made from the beginning," says Mark Siegler, director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. "The baby's clinical course supports the original judgment that this was a case they could deal with...
Elijah T. Siegler...