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Brian Whiston, who led Michigan's department of education since 2015, died May 7. He was 56.
Reading & Literacy
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Former first lady Barbara Bush, an advocate for early and adult literacy during her time in the White House and afterward, died last week at the age of 92.
School & District Management
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William F. "Bill" Goodling, a former teacher, principal, and superintendent who became one of the most influential members of Congress on education policy during his 13 terms in the House of Representatives, died Sept. 17 at his York, Pa., home.
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William L. Sanders, the statistician and researcher who developed the controversial value-added system for evaluating teachers based on student growth, died March 16. He was 74.
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Richard DuFour, a renowned education consultant and author who advocated collaborative teaching environments, died Feb. 8. He was 69.
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David B. Tyack, an influential education historian, died Oct. 27 at age 85.
Law & Courts
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Jack Greenberg, a civil rights lawyer who helped litigate the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, has died.
Education
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Phyllis Schlafly, an influential conservative activist, author, and lawyer, died Sept. 5 at age 92. Anna Dewdney, the author and illustrator of the popular Llama Llama children's books, died Sept. 3. She was 50.
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Seymour Papert, an education technology and artificial-intelligence research pioneer whose theories augured both today's digital learning and maker-education movements, died July 31. He was 88.
Education
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On the Passing of an Education Scholar Who Spent Time in the Trenches
Samuel C. Stringfield, a nationally known expert on school improvement and a former member of the Baltimore City school board, died last month at the age of 67.
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Jerome Seymour Bruner, one of the primary drivers of the "cognitive revolution" in psychology in the 1960s and an active scholar, died June 5. He was 100.