http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-04-16T22:17:34+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2026-04-15T07:49:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=diane_ravitch&rev=1776239346&do=diff Diane Ravitch (b. 1938) Biography Diane Silvers Ravitch is an American historian of education, public intellectual, and former federal education official whose work has both chronicled and altered the course of American schooling for nearly half a century. Born on July 1, 1938, in Houston, Texas, the third of eight children of Anna and Walter Silvers — small-business owners in the city's Heights neighborhood — Ravitch attended the Houston public schools and graduated as one of four valedictori… text/html 2026-04-15T08:11:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=eric_hanushek&rev=1776240688&do=diff Eric Hanushek (1943-) Biography Eric A. Hanushek is an American economist whose work over more than five decades effectively founded the modern economics of education and reoriented education policy worldwide from a preoccupation with inputs to a sustained focus on learning outcomes. Long based at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Hanushek came to education research at a moment — the late 1960s and early 1970s — when the policy debate in the United States and across the developed … text/html 2026-04-15T08:08:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=elliot_eisner&rev=1776240491&do=diff Elliot Eisner (1933–2014) Biography Elliot Wayne Eisner was an American painter, art educator, and educational theorist whose career at Stanford University made him the foremost advocate for the cognitive, curricular, and methodological importance of the arts in education. Born in Chicago in 1933 to a Jewish American family that saw education as a motivating force for change, Eisner traced his intellectual life to his mother's decision, when he was eight, to enroll him in Saturday art classes … text/html 2026-04-15T08:26:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=eugenio_maria_de_hostos_y_de_bonilla&rev=1776241587&do=diff Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla (1839–1903) Biography Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla was a nineteenth-century Puerto Rican philosopher, sociologist, educator, and pan-Caribbean activist whose legacy continues to inform educational practice, policy, and ontology across Latíno Ameríca and beyond. Born on January 11, 1839, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico — then under Spanish colonial rule — de Hostos was sent at ages 12–13 to Spain for schooling, attending the Institute of Secondary Education… text/html 2026-04-16T01:17:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=friedrich_froebel&rev=1776302231&do=diff Friedrich Froebel (1782–1852) Biography Friedrich Froebel was a German pedagogue, philosopher of education, and institutional innovator whose creation of kindergarten — both the concept and the name — made him one of the chief architects of modern early childhood education. Born in 1782 in Thuringia, Germany, Froebel lost his mother at nine months of age, grew up under the care of a Lutheran pastor father, and spent much of his childhood walking through forests and fields that instilled in him…