Elwood P. Cubberley
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Elwood P. Cubberley was a faculty member of the Stanford University School of Education. He endorsed early intelligence testing and the stratification of students into different classes of intelligence. He was an "Administrative progressive" who urged educators to "give up the exceedingly democratic idea that all are equal, and that our society, is devoid of classes."[1]
Cubberley edited and widely disseminated the work of Lewis Terman to prospective educators. He invited Terman to join the Stanford faculty. [2] In the "Editor's Introduction" to to Termans Measurement of Intelligence pp. vii-viii, Cubberley wrote:
- "The educational significance of the reulst to be obtained from careful measurements of the intelligence of children can be hardly overestimated. Question relating to the choice of studies, vocational guidance, schoolroom procedure, the grading of pupils, promotional schemes, the study of the retardation of children in the schools, juvenile delinquency, and the proper handling of subnormals on the one hand and gifted children on the other, - all alike acquire new meaning and significance when viewed in the light of the measurement of intelligence as outlines in this volume."
[edit] Selected books
- Public Education in the United States 1916, 1934
- An Inroduction to the Study of Education and to Teaching 1925
[edit] Notes
- ↑ School: The Story of American Public Education Christian Century , August 29, 2001 by Robert Westbrook
- ↑ Educational research, the national agenda, and educational reform By Erwin V. Johanningmeier, Theresa R. Richardson, pp.204-206 , ISBN 1593117302
