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List of the most influential people in Education,

#901

C. E. Beeby

#76864

Overall Influence

1902 - 1998 (96 years)

Clarence Edward Beeby , most commonly referred to as C.E. Beeby or simply Beeb, was a New Zealand educationalist and psychologist. He was influential in the development of the education system in New Zealand, first as a director of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research from 1936, and then as Director of Education from 1940, initially under the First Labour Government. He also served as ambassador to France and on the UNESCO executive.

#902

Stephen P. Heyneman

#150938

Overall Influence

#903

Gary Orfield

#151140

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

#904

Rob Koper

#151200

Overall Influence

#905

Roger Bennett

#151214

Overall Influence

#906

Gregory Fowler

#103338

Overall Influence

Gregory W. Fowler is an American academic administrator serving as president of the University of Maryland Global Campus. He was previously president of Southern New Hampshire University's Global Campus.

#907

Cesar Cruz

#91048

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

César Cruz is a gang violence prevention advocate and Dean of Secondary Schools Program at Harvard University. He was born in Guadalajara 1974, coming to the United States as an undocumented immigrant at age 9, and holds a B.A. in history from UC Berkeley, and a doctorate in educational leadership from Harvard Graduate School of Education. On May 1, 1992, he was one of 65 people arrested marching on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge after the acquittal of officers charged with beating Rodney King. In 1995, he was involved in a fifteen-day hunger strike at University of California, Irvine. ...

#908

Petra Himmel

#151358

Overall Influence

#909

Roland G. Tharp

#151480

Overall Influence

#910

Janet Catherine Berlo

#48877

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Janet Catherine Berlo is an American art historian and academic, noted for her publications and research into the visual arts heritage of Native American and pre-Columbian cultures. She has also published and lectured on gender studies, the representation and participation of women in indigenous and visual arts, the history of graphic arts since the mid-19th century, indigenous textile arts, and American quilting history and traditions. In the early portion of her academic career Berlo made notable contributions towards the understanding of the art and iconography of Mesoamerica, in particular that of the Classic-period Teotihuacan civilization.

#911

George Gorse

#75780

Overall Influence

George Lawrence Gorse, Jr. is an American art historian and educator. A scholar of medieval and Renaissance architecture, Gorse is the Viola Horton Professor of Art History at Pomona College. Early life and education The son of George, Sr., a veterinarian, and Ruth Marie Knox, Gorse was born in Ithaca, New York and was raised in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from Stroudsburg High School in 1967.

#912

Jules Engel

#81254

Overall Influence

1909 - 2003 (94 years)

Jules Engel was an American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, animator, film director, and teacher of Hungarian origin. He was the founding director of the experimental animation program at the California Institute of the Arts, where he taught until his death, serving as mentor to several generations of animators.

#913

Charol Shakeshaft

#122168

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Charol Shakeshaft is an educational researcher noted for her studies on sexual abuse of students by school staff. She co-authored a four-year study on sexual abuse at school, which first appeared in March 1995, in the educational journal Phi Delta Kappan. Shakeshaft was chair of the Educational Leadership Department at Virginia Commonwealth University until 2017.

#914

Malcolm Airs

#78996

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Malcolm Russell Airs is emeritus professor of conservation and the historic environment at Kellogg College, University of Oxford and Emeritus Professor, Department of Education. His main research work focussed on the building processes and craftsmanship of the Tudor and Stuart periods.

#915

Jeffrey Lee Derevensky

#152115

Overall Influence

#916

Judith Warren Little

#152125

Overall Influence

#917

Duncan Waite

#101638

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Duncan Waite is professor of education and community leadership at Texas State University. He is editor of The International Journal of Leadership in Education and director of the International Center for Educational Leadership and Social Change. He received and M.A. and his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Supervision from the University of Oregon. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan with teaching credentials from Michigan State University. His professional affiliations include the American Educational Research Association and Council of Professors of Instructional Supervision . He ...

#918

Monique L. L. Volman

#152178

Overall Influence

#919

Claudia Märtl

#81505

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Claudia Märtl is a German historian. She is a professor of Medieval history at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her research focuses on English and Romance languages. In March 2011 she was elected to succeed Rudolf Schieffer as President of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. She took office on April 1, 2012 for a limited period of two years. On March 31, 2014, she resigned as president after a very vehement protest against the savings measures of the Free State of Bavaria and reform demands from the State Ministry for Education, Culture, Science and Art, which was taken over by Ludwig Spaenle .

#920

Derek Hodson

#152233

Overall Influence

#921

Luciana Duranti

#41539

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Luciana Duranti is an archival theorist and professor of archival science and diplomatics at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She is a noted expert on diplomatics and electronic records. Since 1998, she has been the director of the electronic records research project, InterPARES . She has disclosed the concept of the archival bond originally initiated by Italian archivist Giorgio Cencetti in 1937.

#922

David L. Hopkins

#152343

Overall Influence

#923

Ellen Goldring

#113966

Overall Influence

Ellen Goldring is a professor of Educational Policy and Leadership at Vanderbilt University. Biography Ellen Goldring received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1985. Her research interests reside in two main areas. One strand centers on understanding and shaping school reform efforts that connect families, communities, and schools. She is co-author of Magnet Schools in Urban Districts: What's Our Choice , with Claire Smrekar, that focuses on questions of equity and community in urban school districts with extensive magnet school plans, and Principals of Dynamic Schools with Sharon Ra...

#924

Anastasia de Waal

#97905

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Anastasia de Waal is a British social policy analyst and broadcaster, specialising in family and education. Director of charity I Can Be, de Waal was previously deputy director at think tank Civitas. De Waal is chair of national parenting charity Family Lives.

#925

Sanford J. Ungar

Sanford J. Ungar

#39641

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Sanford J. "Sandy" Ungar is an American journalist, author, and the inaugural director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University. He was the tenth president of Goucher College and the 24th director of Voice of America.

#926

Tadashi Matsuda

#152838

Overall Influence

#927

Alan Stewart

#67631

Overall Influence

1917 - 2004 (87 years)

Sir Alan Stewart was a New Zealand educator and university administrator. He was principal of Massey Agricultural College from 1959 to 1963 and founding vice-chancellor of Massey University from 1964 to 1983, during which time he guided the institution's transition from agricultural college to full university. He is noted for building the university's internationally recognised agricultural programme, as well as for greatly expanding the university's extramural programme to make tertiary education available to rural New Zealanders. He was knighted in 1981 for services to education.

#928

Zane Lee Berge

#153065

Overall Influence

#929

Harry Daniels

#153197

Overall Influence

#930

Navi Radjou

#40829

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Navi Radjou is an Indian born scholar and an innovation and leadership advisor based in Silicon Valley. He is a Fellow of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and has spoken and written widely on the theme of frugal innovation.

#931

Oliver Lüdtke

#153302

Overall Influence

#932

Werner Spies

#22471

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Werner Spies is a German art historian, journalist and exhibition organizer. From 1997 to 2000, he was a director of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Klaus Albrecht Schröder, director of the Albertina in Vienna, has called Spies "one of the most influential art historians of the 20th century."

#933

Craig T. Ramey

#153330

Overall Influence

#934

Michael Baxandall

#18874

Overall Influence

1933 - 2008 (75 years)

Michael David Kighley Baxandall, FBA was a British art historian and a professor emeritus of Art History at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and worked as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum. His book Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy was profoundly influential in the social history of art, and is widely used as a textbook in college courses.

#935

Margaret Reynolds

#88709

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Margaret Reynolds served as an Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland from 1983 to 1999. Reynolds had two ministerial appointments during her time in the Senate, serving as Minister for Local Government from September 1987 to April 1990 and as Minister assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women from January 1988 to April 1990.

#936

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

#65612

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir is an Icelandic professor of art history, a novelist, playwright and poet. She received the Nordic Council Literature Prize for Hotel Silence in 2018 and the Médicis Foreign Award for Miss Iceland in 2019.

#937

Susan Peterson

#124822

Overall Influence

1925 - 2009 (84 years)

Susan Harnly Peterson was an American artist, ceramics teacher, author and professor. Biography Susan Annette Harnly was born in McPherson, Kansas on July 21, 1925. In 1946 she earned her bachelor's degree at Mills College in Oakland, California. In 1950 she earned a master of fine arts in ceramics at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.

#938

Carmen Dalli

#142247

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Carmen Dalli is a New Zealand education academic specialising in early childhood education. Dalli has a BA from the University of Malta, a MEd from the University of Bristol and a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington She is currently a professor in the School of Education at Victoria University of Wellington.

#939

Lalage Bown

#70865

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (97 years)

Lalage Jean Bown was an English educator, feminist and women's literacy advocate. Biography The daughter, eldest of four children, of Dorothy Ethel Watson and Arthur Mervyn Bown, an Indian Civil Servant who worked in Burma , she was born in Croydon, south London, on 23 May 1927, and later grew up in Shropshire at Woolstaston. She was educated at Wycombe Abbey School and at Cheltenham Ladies' College, and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in modern history and a MA from the University of Oxford where she studied at Somerville College. Bown also took post-graduate studies in adult education ...

#940

Jacqueline Moss

Jacqueline Moss

#96902

Overall Influence

1927 - 2005 (78 years)

Jacqueline Moss was an American art historian, lecturer, writer and art critic. She was the curator of education at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and lectured widely on modern and 20th-century art. Her articles and seminars often had a focus on women artists. In the 1980s, she had a travel business touring art and architecture in Europe, Asia and South America.

#941

Leah Dickerman

#72691

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Leah Dickerman is the director of research programs at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. She was formerly director of editorial & content strategy at MoMA. Serving previously as the museum’s first Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture, a post endowed in 2015, Dickerman previously held the positions of curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA , acting head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art , Washington, D.C. , and associate curator in modern and contemporary art at the NGA . Over the course of her career, Dickerman has organized o...

#942

Mantz Yorke

#153895

Overall Influence

#943

Nicholas Penny

#20598

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Sir Nicholas Beaver Penny is a British art historian. From 2008 to 2015 he was director of the National Gallery in London. Early life Penny was educated at Shrewsbury School before he studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He then studied for a doctorate at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where he was taught by Michael Kitson. While a student at the Courtauld, Penny contributed photographs to the Art & Architecture section of the Conway Library collection.

#944

Edward G. Carr

#154242

Overall Influence

#945

Rebecca Miller

#65185

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Rebecca Augusta Miller, Lady Day-Lewis is an American filmmaker and novelist. She is known for her films Angela , Personal Velocity: Three Portraits , The Ballad of Jack and Rose , The Private Lives of Pippa Lee , and Maggie's Plan , all of which she wrote and directed, as well as her novels The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Jacob's Folly. Miller received the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Personal Velocity and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director for Angela.

#946

Samuel Greiff

#154419

Overall Influence

#947

Mamoru Oshii

#19146

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

is a Japanese filmmaker, television director and writer. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of acclaimed anime films, including Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer , Angel's Egg , Patlabor 2: The Movie , and Ghost in the Shell . He also holds the distinction of having created the first ever OVA, Dallos . As a writer, Oshii has worked as a screenwriter, and occasionally as a manga writer and novelist. His most notable works as a writer include the manga Kerberos Panzer Cop and its feature film adaptation Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade .

#948

Charles Beirne

#107329

Overall Influence

1938 - 2010 (72 years)

Charles J. Beirne, S.J. was an American Jesuit and academic administrator. Beirne served as the 11th President of Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, from 2000 until 2007. During his seven-year tenure, Beirne oversaw the drafting of a new mission statement, launched in the largest capital campaign in Le Moyne's history, grossing $91 million by June 2010 when the campaign ended, and adopted a twenty-year architectural plan for the campus.

#949

Robert Rosenblum

#26363

Overall Influence

1927 - 2006 (79 years)

Robert Rosenblum was an American art historian and curator known for his influential and often irreverent scholarship on European and American art of the mid-eighteenth to 20th centuries. Biography Rosenblum was born in New York City and studied art history at Queens College and Yale University and, in 1956, received his Ph.D. from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.

#950

Eli Waxman

#154844

Overall Influence

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