http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-04-15T22:16:29+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=benjamin_franklin&rev=1750081549&do=diff Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Biography Benjamin Franklin was a renowned American polymath, statesman, scientist, inventor, author, printer, and diplomat. He played a crucial role in the founding of the United States and is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the country. Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and began his career as a printer. He later moved to Philadelphia, where he established himself as a successful businessman and civic leader. 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 2026-04-15T07:57:31+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 …