http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-04-16T22:19:44+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=adrianna_kezar&rev=1750081549&do=diff Adrianna Kezar Biography Adrianna Kezar is a multidisciplinary higher education educational scholar whose work consistently highlights the creation of inclusive and fair educational institutions, especially in higher education. Her scholarly work is influenced by her multidisciplinary thinking and previous professional experience in student affairs administration. Through her work, Dr. Kezar has expanded our understanding of educational issues ranging from STEM reform to organizational change.… text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=charles_william_eliot&rev=1750081549&do=diff Charles William Eliot (1834–1926) Biography Charles William Eliot was an American academic who served as the President of Harvard University for a remarkable 40-year tenure from 1869 to 1909. He is widely credited with transforming Harvard into a modern research university by expanding the curriculum, professionalizing the faculty, and increasing admissions standards. Eliot's reforms had a profound influence not just on 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 2026-04-16T01:17:11+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… text/html 2026-04-15T07:53:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=robert_c._pianta&rev=1776239582&do=diff Robert C. Pianta (1955-) Biography Robert C. Pianta is an American developmental psychologist, teacher educator, and former Dean of the University of Virginia's School of Education and Human Development whose work over nearly five decades has shown that the quality of interactions between teachers and children is the decisive lever of educational quality. Pianta earned his B.S. from the University of Connecticut in 1977 and an M.A. in special education there in 1978, then taught special educat…