skip to main content
LOTERRE

LOTERRE

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Lengua del contenido

| français English
Ayuda para la búsqueda

Concept information

... > social science subjects > education > education studies > education policy > educational reform > key people in educational reform > William Torrey Harris

Término preferido

William Torrey Harris  

Definición

  • As a prominent urban school superintendent and U.S. Commissioner of Education in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century, William Torrey Harris defined and addressed problems facing public education and in doing so helped establish the framework for educational administration as a profession. Born into a prosperous Connecticut farming family in 1835, Harris attended Yale College for 2 years before moving west for an uncertain future in St. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent; Harris, William Torrey]

Concepto genérico

Pertenece al grupo

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-BN14V2JV-P

Descargue este concepto:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD