Ralph Tyler: The Educators' Educator

Any short list of individuals dominating the educational scene during the second half of the 20th century necessarily includes the name of Ralph W Tyler His scholarly contributions to the fields of evaluation and curriculum development prior to 1950 were at the core of discourse in both for the decades afterward. Probe into the genesis and development of the National Academy of Education, the National Institute of Education, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a host of federal, state, institutional, and organizational educational improvement initiatives from the 1950s through the 1980s and one finds the genius of Ralph Tyler And look to the work of the thousands of individuals who sought his wise counsel to begin to develop an appreciation of how great a treasure the generosity and wisdom of one person can be.