ELC Team

Benjamin Bloom, born in Lansford, Pennsylvania, was born on February 21, 1913. He loved to read and would research everything. In 1935, he received his degrees, bachelor’s and master’s, from Pennslyvania State University. Later in 1942, he received a Ph.D in education from University of Chicago. Bloom primarily focused on the theory of mastery learning […]

Margaret Bancroft was born on June 28, 1854, in Philadelphia. After graduating from high school, she began her path to become a teacher. From the beginning of her career as a teacher, she primarily focused on educating students with special needs. Back then, there weren’t many opportunities given to children with special needs and often,

Mary Mcleod Bethune was born near Maysville, North Carolin, on July 10, 1875. As a child, her mother and she worked hard to buy land from her mother’s previous owner. Later, Bethune received an opportunity for education and graduated in 1894. During her education, she was taught how to be a missionary, however, soon after

Marie Clay was born in Wellington in 1926. Born in the country of New Zealand, education was important and there were lots of funds prioritized for schools and research. As Clay began to grow up, she started learning how to teach and started to study more research about child psychology and how they learn in

Born on August 31, 1870, Maria Montessori was born in Italy. Growing up, Italy had conservative values of women, but Maria never listened. In high school, she went to an all-boys school, learning more about math and science. Montessori was encouraged by her mother to attend med school and she did, leading her to graduate

Born on August 9, 1896, Jean Piaget was an intelligent Swiss psychologist and genetic epidemiologist. Starting his interests in zoology, Piaget went to college pursuing zoology and philosophy which led him to psychology. Piaget was one of the first to believe that children were not the same as adults and thought differently. This belief led

Horace Mann was born on May 4, 1796, and was a innovator in the field of education. Growing up in an environment without many resources, Mann turned to his local library for learning. At the age of 20, he was accepted into Brown University as a sophomore. At Brown, he worked on issues involving education,

Emma Willard was a pioneer in women’s education. Born on February 23, 1787, Willard was the sixteenth child out of seventeen children. From a young age, Willard gained an education rather quickly, teaching in 1804 after enrolling in school in 1802. After seeing how her husband’s nephew received more educational opportunities compared to women, she

Sarah Emma Edmonds, as America’s first female teacher, was born in 1841 in Canda. She began teaching her career at a girls’ school in New York City and she later enlisted in the Union Army as a man named Frank Thompson in 1861. She served for two years before being honorably discharged, and after the

Malala is a Pakistani children’s education activist, and the best selling author of “I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban”, “Malala’s Magic Pencil”, and “We are Displaced”. Born July 12th, 1997, Malala spoke out against the prohibition on the education of girls that was imposed by