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Horace Mann
Horace Mann was a lawyer for Massachusetts and helped pass the bill creating the Massachusetts State Board Of Education. He was an innovater that recognized students as learners. -
John Dewey
Dewey advanced a pedagogy that used content and both students within thier social contexts. Dewey set up a laboratory in Chicago to test his ideas about teaching children. -
Nel Noddings
Nel Noddings introduced a new way of teaching that demonstrated the importance of caring and relationship as a goal and an aspect of education. She even won an Excllence teacher award at Stanford. -
Eric Donald
Donald proposed a common national core-knowledge curriculum that included the basic principles of constitution government. According to Donald general factual knowledge is vital and got his point across. He was author of the book (The Schools We Need and Why We Dont Have Them). -
Albert Shanker
Albert Shanker transformed edcuation. He became the head of the of the national union, the AFT. Shaker's visions converted New York teacher's union into the most powerful trade union in the nation.
