What is Project Zero? The First Fifty-Five Years

Launched in 1967 at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Project Zero (PZ) conducts basic research in education, broadly construed, and then tries to give findings and recommendations a 'push' in the right direction. The Project was founded by noted philosopher Nelson Goodman,-- an enthusiast of the arts, Goodman sought to establish firm knowledge about education in the arts-hence the whimsical name. Howard Gardner was a founding member of PZ, and with David Perkins, directed it for many years. Gardner will talk about some of the major work undertaken at PZ over the years and what it entails to lead and sustain an organization with not a penny of endowment funds...over half a century.