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School & District Management
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Jerome S. Bruner, Pioneering Education Psychologist, Dies at 100
Jerome Seymour Bruner, one of the primary drivers of the "cognitive revolution" in psychology in the 1960s and an active scholar, died June 5, at 100 years old.
School & District Management
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Harold L. 'Bud' Hodgkinson, Renowned Education Demographer, Dies at 85
Harold L. "Bud" Hodgkinson dedicated his life to documenting and analyzing the demographic changes in American schools, and how schools would need to adapt to help a diversifying student population meet its potential.
Student Well-Being & Movement
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Phillip C. Schlechty, an education researcher, speaker, and school improvement advocate, died Jan. 7. He was 78.
Standards & Accountability
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Robert L. Linn, a prominent scholar of educational assessment, died Dec. 8 of natural causes. He was 77.
School & District Management
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John E. Chubb, a prominent education researcher and the president of the National Association of Independent Schools, died Nov. 12. He was 61.
Education
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Obituaries
Andrew Kohut, one of the nation's foremost opinion pollsters, died Sept. 8 from leukemia. Thomas Sobol, a former New York state education commissioner and professor of education, died Aug. 27 of complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 83.
School & District Management
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Robert R. "Bud" Spillane, a former superintendent of the Fairfax County, Va., and Boston school districts, has died. Mr. Spillane, who had a reputation as a tough yet fair leader, died July 18.
Education
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Marva D. Collins, a legendary educator known for fostering expectations of excellence for children raised in the poor neighborhoods of Chicago, died last week at age 78. Ronald Thorpe, the president and ceo of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, died last week after a battle with lung cancer. He was 63.
