http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-04-15T22:22:08+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=alfred_binet&rev=1750081549&do=diff Alfred Binet (1857-1911) Biography Alfred Binet was a French psychologist known for his pioneering work in intelligence testing. He initially studied law and medicine before focusing on experimental psychology. Binet developed the first intelligence test, the Binet-Simon Scale, to assess children's mental age compared to their chronological age. He emphasized individual differences in intelligence and qualitative observations. Binet's work laid the foundation for modern psychometric testing an… text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=cami_anderson&rev=1750081549&do=diff Cami Anderson Biography Cami Anderson is an influential figure in the field of education, known for her dedication to improving outcomes for marginalized and at-risk students. Born in Los Angeles in 1971, Anderson grew up in a multiracial household as one of 12 children, with parents who were activists and adopted nine children with special needs. This upbringing instilled in her a passion for addressing inequities in the education system. text/html 2026-04-14T17:29:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=deborah_meier&rev=1776187746&do=diff Deborah Meier (1931-) Biography Deborah Meier is an American educator, author, and school founder who has been a leading voice in U.S. educational reform for more than fifty years and the first K–12 teacher to receive the MacArthur Fellowship. Born on April 6, 1931, in New York City to Joseph and Pearl Willen — both politically active, with Joseph running the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and Pearl volunteering widely and running once for City Council — Meier was raised in a household co… text/html 2026-04-15T07:57:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=edward_de_bono&rev=1776239851&do=diff Edward de Bono (1933–2021) Biography Edward de Bono was a Maltese physician, psychologist, and prolific author whose work over more than five decades made “thinking” a teachable subject in its own right and introduced two of the most widely used vocabularies in twentieth-century cognitive practice: *lateral thinking* and *parallel thinking*. Born in Malta in 1933, de Bono came from a family in which, by his own account, two strands converged: a strong medical orientation from his father, a pro… text/html 2026-04-15T08:04:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=edward_said&rev=1776240253&do=diff Edward Said (1935–2003) Biography Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian-American literary theorist, public intellectual, and political advocate whose work reshaped the humanities in the late twentieth century and whose writings on culture, power, and education remain foundational to contemporary thought. Born in 1935 into a well-off family that moved between Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon, Said grew up under British colonial schooling in which pupils studied far more about England and its poetry … 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 …