http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-04-15T00:27:42+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=alma_harris&rev=1750081549&do=diff Alma Harris Biography Alma Harris taught at Warwick, University College London, Malaya, Bath, and Swansea. Her research and writing on educational leadership, policy, and school reform are internationally renowned. She was a Welsh Government Senior Policy Adviser from 2009 to 2012, helping with system-wide transformation. She co-led the national Professional Learning Communities (PLC) initiative and developed and implemented a master's degree for all newly trained Welsh teachers. In January 20… text/html 2026-04-14T17:06:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=cai_yuan_pei&rev=1776186407&do=diff Cai Yuanpei (1868–1940) Biography Cai Yuanpei (蔡元培) was one of the most influential educators and thinkers of modern China, widely credited with transforming Chinese higher education during the turbulent transition from the Qing dynasty to the Republic of China. Born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, Cai received a rigorous classical education in the Confucian tradition, passing the imperial examination at a young age and earning the prestigious jinshi degree, after which he briefly served as an… 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 2026-04-14T06:08:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=robert_e._slavin&rev=1776146922&do=diff Robert E. Slavin (1950–2021) Biography Robert E. Slavin — known to colleagues as Bob — was an American educational researcher whose career centered on bringing the standards of the experimental sciences into classroom practice and school reform. He studied psychology at Reed College in Oregon, where Professor Carol Creedon mentored his undergraduate thesis and encouraged him toward a career in education, and he went on to earn a doctorate in social relations from Johns Hopkins University in 19…