- Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch 's June 7 Gadfly article took the New York City Department of Education to task for hyping the most recent reading scores for students in More... - Nicholas Murray Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 - December 7, 1947) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. The co-winner with Jane Addams of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, Butler was president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1925 to 1945, and received the 8 Republican Party electoral votes for Vice President of the United States in the 1912 presidential race, after that party's VP nominee, … - Lawrence A. Cremin
Lawrence A. Cremin (1925 - 1990) was an educational historian and administrator. He won the 1962 Bancroft Prize in American History for his book "The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957". This book described the anti-intellectual emphasis on non-academic subjects and non-authoritarian teaching methods that occurred as a result of enormously increasing enrollment. - Frank W. Cyr
Frank W. Cyr, Ph.D. (July 7, 1900 – August 1, 1995) was an American educator and author. As a specialist in rural education, he organized the United States' first national standards conference for school transportation in 1939, starting what became an ongoing cooperative effort by those building and operating school buses. - Frank Moretti
Frank Moretti is co-founder of the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, for which he provides pedagogical, strategic and managerial leadership. In addition to defining the goals and disseminating the CCNMTL message on campus, Frank serves as Professor of Communications, Computing and Technology at Teachers College. - William Bagley
William Chandler Bagley (born March 15, 1874, in Detroit; died July 1, 1946, in New York City), an American educator and editor, was born in Detroit, USA. He graduated in 1895 from Michigan State College, currently called Michigan State University; completed M.S., in 1898, from the University of Wisconsin, 1898; and was awarded Ph.D. by Cornell University in 1900. He taught in elementary schools before becoming (1908) professor of education at the University of Illinois. - Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin (March 22, 1912 - December 16, 2004) was a Canadian-American painter, often referred to as a minimalist, although she considered herself an abstract expressionist. She was born in Macklin, Saskatchewan and moved to the United States in 1931, becoming a citizen in 1950. She is most closely associated with Taos, New Mexico, although she also lived in New York City for a time. The bulk of her work is composed of square grids. - Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz /'kju:nɪts/ (July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was a noted American poet who served two years (1974-1976) as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a precursor to the modern Poet Laureate program), and served another year as United States Poet Laureate in 2000. - Charles Alston
Charles Alston (November 28, 1907 - April 27, 1977) was an African American teacher and artist. His 1934 "Girl in a Red Dress" uses such a vibrant red it reminds one of the Fauvists redux. Alston attended Columbia College and Teachers College at Columbia University. He began his career while still a student, illustrating covers for jazz musician Duke Ellington and poet Langston Hughes. Influenced by Diego Rivera and others, he painted murals throughout Harlem, … - Mary Antin
Mary Antin was an American author and immigration rights activist. Born to a Jewish family in Polotsk, she immigrated to the Boston area with her mother and siblings in 1894. She later moved to New York City where she attended Teachers College of Columbia University and Barnard College. Antin is best known for her 1912 autobiography "The Promised Land", which describes her assimilation into American culture. - Martin Haberman
Distinguished Professor University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, is creator of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Teacher Education Program (MMTEP). He was one of the three founders of the SOE Urban Doctoral Program. He received the 1996 Teacher Educator of the Year Award from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Dr. Haberman is the author of seven books and more than 200 articles and chapters. - James A. Graham
Captain James Albert Graham (1940-1967) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the highest U.S military honor - the Medal of Honor for his heroism and sacrifice of life in June 1967, during the Vietnam War. James Albert Graham was born on 25 August 1940, in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. He attended to high school in Brandywine, Maryland. - K. Leroy Irvis
K. Leroy Irvis was the first African American to serve as a speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States. Mr. Irvis, a Democrat, represented Pittsburgh in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1958-1988. - Lynd Ward
Lynd Kendall Ward (26 June 1905 - 28 June 1985) was an American artist and storyteller, and son of Methodist minister and prominent political organizer Harry F. Ward. He illustrated some 200 juvenile and adult books. Ward worked in wood engraving, watercolor, oil, brush and ink, lithography and mezzotint. Ward spent his childhood in Illinois, Massachusetts and New Jersey. When he was in the first grade, Ward discovered that his last name spelled "draw" backwards, … - Francis Ernest Lloyd
Francis Ernest Lloyd, M.A. (1868-1947) was an American botanist, born in Manchester, England, and educated at Princeton University (A.B., 1891; A.M., 1895), in New Jersey, and in Europe at Munich and Bonn, in Germany. He was employed at various institutions of higher learning from 1891 onward. He served on the faculties of Williams College, Pacific University, Teachers College (Columbia University), Harvard Summer School, Alabama Polytechnic Institute (professor of botany, … - Camilo Osías
Camilo Osías was a Filipino politician, twice for a short time President of the Senate of the Philippines. He attended school in Balaoan, Vigan and San Fernando, and was appointed government student to the United States in 1905. He studied at the University of Chicago in 1906 and 1907. He graduated from the Western Illinois State Teachers College at Macomb, Illinois in 1908, and from the Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City in 1910. - Frederick Henry Sykes
Frederick Henry Sykes (October 21, 1863-October 14, 1917) was an American college president, born at Queensville, Ontario, in Canada. He graduated at Toronto University in 1885, studied at Johns Hopkins University (1891-95), and afterwards held various teaching positions. From 1903-10 he was professor of English literature and director of extension teaching at Columbia University, then professor of English at Teachers College, Columbia (1910-13). - Gail Kubik
Gail Thompson Kubik (b. September 5 1914, South Coffeyville, Oklahoma; d. July 20 1984, Covina, California) was an American composer, motion picture scorist, violinist, and teacher. He studied at the Eastman School of Music, the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago with Leo Sowerby, and Harvard University with Walter Piston and Nadia Boulanger. He taught violin and composition at Monmouth College and composition and music history at Columbia University (1937), … - Edwin Grant Dexter
Edwin Grant Dexter (1868- ?) was an American educator, born at Calais, Me. He graduated in 1891 from Brown University, where he taught for a year and then (between 1892 and 1899) was science master of Coloradp Springs High School, director of the Coloradp Springs Summer School of Science, Philosophy, and Languages, and professor of psychology in the Normal School at Greeley, Colo. In 1899 he gained a Ph.D. at Columbia University and the higher diploma of Teachers College. - Leanne Baird
Leanne Baird was Miss Canada International in 1998. Leanne Baird was born in Stoney Creek, Ontario. She stands at five feet, seven inches and has red hair and blue eyes. She was chosen Miss Canada International in August 1998 and went to the Seychelles for the Miss World pageant on 26 November in 1998. She did not win Miss World 1998, but her roommate did, Miss Israel 1998 Linor Abargil. - Bobby Susser
Bobby Susser, born July 18, 1942, in New York City, New York is an American young children's songwriter and record producer. In 1987, he earned an M.A. degree in communications arts and sciences and early childhood education from Teachers College, Columbia University. - Jay Heubert
- Michael A. Rebell
Michael A. Rebell Michael A. Rebell is an experienced litigator, administrator, researcher, and scholar in the field of education law. He currently is the Executive Director of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc, and also serves as co-counsel for plaintiffs in CFE v. State of New York , a major challenge to the constitutionality of New York State's education finance system. - Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was an American politician, educator and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th District for seven terms from 1968-1983. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to Congress. On January 23, 1972, she became the first African American candidate for President of the United States. She won 162 delegates. - Neil Postman
Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 - October 5, 2003) was an American professor, media theorist, and cultural critic who is best known by the general public for his 1985 book about television, "Amusing Ourselves to Death". For more than forty years, he was associated with New York University. Postman was an old-fashioned humanist, who believed that "there is a limit to the promise of new technology, and that it cannot be a substitute for human values." - Alistair Campbell
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, ONZM, (born 25 June, 1925) is a poet and novelist. He was born on Rarotonga, Cook Islands but has resident for most of his life in New Zealand mainly around the Wellington region, and most recently in Pukerua Bay, Porirua. Born Alistair Campbell but later added 'Te Ariki' after going back to the Cook Islands and discovering his grandfather had ties to chiefdom. So in honour he added Te Ariki or "the chief" to his name. - Merle Curti
Merle Curti was a leading American historian. His specialty was social and intellectual history. He founded three academic disciplines—peace studies, intellectual history and social history—and helped create cliometrics as a tool in historical research. - Molly Dingle
Molly Dingle (1892 - 1974) educator, born St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Dingle at the age of 16 began as a teacher's aid at Holloway School, then the Methodist College, and joined the staff of the Vera Perlin School in 1915. When she retired in 1952, she was its Principal. Educated at Presbyterian Hall at St. John's and the Holloway School at St. John's and the Teacher's College, Truro, Nova Scotia. - Donna Shalala
Donna E. Shalala became professor of political science and president of the University of Miami on June 1, 2001. President Shalala has more than 25 years of experience as an accomplished scholar, teacher, and administrator. Prior to joining the University, she served as secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration for eight years-the longest term in U.S. history. - Lori A. Custodero
Lori A. Custodero, D.M.A. is part of the faculty at the Columbia University Teachers College. According to a news article, Custodero recently studied children's "flow experience", defined as "studying how the children keep themselves challenged in order to keep learning new skills." Custodero has a Bachelor of Music from the University of Redlands, MA from California State University, and D.M.A. from University of Southern California. - Beth Fisher-Yoshida
Beth Fisher-Yoshida Beth Fisher-Yoshida is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team . Beth Fisher-Yoshida is the Associate Director of ICCCR and engaged in the participatory action research (PAR) activities of the ICCCR. She received her Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems and M.A. in Organizational Development from Fielding Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. - Ellen Lagemann
- Doug Kreeger
Doug Kreeger , has a long career as an entrepreneur and civic activist. He founded Kreeger & Sons' in New York City. Over the years he has been involved in a variety of startups including the popular New York City, The City Bakery, which has also opened in Los Angeles. He is involved in politics and is currenty a member of the President's Advisory Council at Teachers College in New York. Doug is one of the original founders of Air America. - Katherine McMillan Culp
Katherine McMillan Culp , senior research scientist, has been studying innovative programs to improve the quality of technology use in K-12 classrooms and informal educational settings since 1991. Dr. Culp has directed a series of program evaluations focused on technology-rich teacher development and student learning in math and science. - Meghan Marrero
Meghan Marrero is U.S. Satellite's Director of Curriculum. She is a former New York City science educator and currently a Doctoral Student at Teachers College, Columbia University. She leads a team of curriculum developers and insures a research-based design in all classroom activities. Her interest in Ocean Literacy for educators and students is propelling research in this area with the Signals of Spring - ACES product. - Joan Jeffri
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- Jeff Wetzler
Jeff Wetzler joined Teach For America after working at Monitor Group, an international consulting firm, where he developed and led client engagements to advise executives on a range of strategic, organizational, and leadership issues. While at Monitor, Wetzler also led new product development initiatives and managed global training in the area of interpersonal effectiveness. - Stephen A. Cavallo
Stephen A. Cavallo , Ph.D., CCC-SLP Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist Associate Director, NY Speech Consultants Dr. Cavallo is Associate Director of New York Speech Consultants . His primary responsibilities include supervising voice evaluations and clinical staff. Dr. Cavallo is a New York State licensed speech-language pathologist and holds ASHA's Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) in speech-language pathology. - Elaine Wolfensohn
Elaine Wolfensohn Board Member Elaine Wolfensohn has been involved for over 30 years in the field of education and arts education while raising her family. Her work in Australia and the United States has included teaching in private schools, creating teen tutoring programs in inner city schools, and training adult volunteers to tutor high school students. Mrs. Wolfensohn was educated at Wellesley College, where she received a bachelor's degree in French literature.
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