g empirical questions raised by the first private school voucher programmes in American cities. He served ... as held the Twenty-first Century Endowed Chair in School Choice in the Department of Education Reform at t... University of Arkansas, where he also directs the School Choice Demonstration Project — the most sustained programme of empirical research on private school choice policy in the United States. His career sp
eborah Meier is an American educator, author, and school founder who has been a leading voice in U.S. educ... stice. She attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, an independent progressive school whose atmosphere would later shape her vision of public education, and... eier she raised three children; once they were in school she became a substitute teacher in Chicago in the
life; as a teenager he attended the Aarhus Latin School, whose rigid, rote-driven pedagogy left a lasting... to roads, a church in Copenhagen, and a folk high school in northern Zealand; and he ranks alongside Hans ... t merely about academic content. At the folk high school named in his honour in 1855, Grundtvig expressed ... on that became the cornerstone of every folk high school he promoted.
* Grundtvig, N. F. S. (1832–1855)
one of four valedictorians from San Jacinto High School, a comprehensive but racially segregated school of 1,200 students. She left the segregated South to atten... degree in political science, and married Yale Law School graduate Richard Ravitch shortly after commenceme... time best friend, the career New York City public-school educator Mary Butz, in 2012. Author of fourteen b
ity of Vermont (BA, 1879) and, after two years of school-teaching in Pennsylvania and Vermont, enrolled at... ogy and in 1896 founded the University Elementary School — known to the world as the Dewey Laboratory School — in which he tested his educational ideas with child... concentrated educational writing, including //The School and Society// (1899) and //The Child and the Curr
e Annual Reports, founded and edited the //Common School Journal//, and undertook a pivotal study tour of ... acknowledged as the father of the American public school system.
===== Key Contributions =====
==== The ... s ranged widely in subject matter — the duties of school committees, teaching methods in reading, the economic benefits of education, the case for school district libraries, the importance of punctual at
, and former Dean of the University of Virginia's School of Education and Human Development whose work ove... hen taught special education at Bloomfield Middle School in Bloomfield, Connecticut, from 1978 to 1981 whi... sity of Virginia's Curry Programs in Clinical and School Psychology and Curry School of Education as an assistant professor, becoming associate professor in 1991
hed her dissertation as Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring (1998), a study of how corporate-minded school restructuring affected the learning experiences o... has been directly involved in coalitions opposing school closings, housing privatisation, and the dismantl... s Education: Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform (2004) and The New Political Economy of Ur
ical ferment of the 1960s, he dropped out of high school, returned, then dropped out of college twice — ex... ctor of Education (Ed.D.) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and spent twelve years as a high school teacher, K–8 principal, and university professor in... e Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education — the initiative through which he de
childhood. She studied at the Philadelphia Normal School and began her teaching career as a fifth-grade teacher in the Philadelphia public school system in 1873, quickly earning a reputation as a... he system, she eventually became the principal of School Number 9 on Temple Street. There she persuaded th... se demand grew each year. She was introduced by a school board member, Dr. W.W. Keen (a local surgeon and
was an Afroboricua educator who opened the first school for girls in Puerto Rico and is remembered as a p... ge of fifteen, and in 1820 she founded her girls' school in San Juan — recorded as serving at least 116 fe... == Key Contributions =====
==== The First Girls' School in Puerto Rico (1820) ====
Cordero y Molina's si... n 1820, of what is widely recognized as the first school for girls in Puerto Rico. The school enrolled at
he Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) reimagined what a school and its surrounding community could be for childr... f poverty. He then enrolled at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, where he continued to investigate t... s are partners in education, not bystanders — the school is a hub of community life.
**4. Evaluate:** dat... t the Promise Academy, students experience longer school days, access to highly qualified teachers, and a
the rest of his life. He trained as an elementary school teacher and, following the liberation of Italy fr... igate rumours that local citizens were building a school from the rubble of bombed-out houses. The women o... selling an abandoned tank be used to construct a school for young children, believing that education was ... r of a mental health centre serving children with school difficulties, and he drew on Piaget's development
tigating the memory strategies used by elementary school students — an early indicator of the research tra... l drills. Working with Irene Gaskins at Benchmark School — a private school outside Philadelphia dedicated to evidence-based instruction for struggling readers — ... e classrooms, and the pattern held across diverse school settings.
==== Highly Effective Schools ====
Ex
Finn, Jr., has held various roles, including high school teacher, education professor, think-tank analyst,... d standards-based reform, quality assessment, and school choice.
He has authored or co-authored more than... , Jr. (2008). Troublemaker: A personal history of school reform since Sputnik. Princeto University Press.
... he United States.
**Early Engagement in Charter School Movement**: Finn became actively involved in the
