Dale DeBakcsy
The Two Montessoris: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an Educational Revolution.
Had Maria Montessori died in 1913 at age 43, at the height of her fame and insight, this would be a pretty straightforward article about...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Aug 21, 2023
Beyond Nature Vs. Nurture: Marian Cleeves Diamond and Leda Cosmides
In 1964, two publications announced the beginning of two roads out of the centuries-long quagmire represented by the Nature Versus...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 28, 2023
Mushrooms, Fossils, and a Pen to Draw Them With: Beatrix Potter, Naturalist.
"I don't know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 21, 2023
Children are People: The Life and Science of Anna Freud
Humans have a profound genius for generating terrible ideas. Slavery. Theocratic government. But there is one particular idea we hung...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 10, 2023
Fighting "Unexpectation": Mary Bunting's Journey From Microbiologist to College President.
There is a lot of life left to live after one's children are out of the house. It might seem an obvious statement, but it was a fact that...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 29, 2023
Come Together? Inez Prosser and the Psychological Impact of Mixed Schooling Systems.
Many Hopes Lie Buried Here. These words, etched on the tomb of Inez Prosser (~1895-1934) express an entire constellation of grief and...
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Dale DeBakcsy
May 1, 2023
Clean Water, Breathable Air, and the Science of Food: The Remarkable Legacy of Ellen Swallow
Every morning we wake up to a feast of assumptions. We assume that the place our sewage gets dumped is not the same place our drinking...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Signs: Ursula Bellugi and the Neuroscience of Language.
Sign Language is a grammarless series of bluntly defined iconic hand gestures. Until William Stokoe (1919-2000) published his...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Separate. Mamie Phipps Clark and the Psychology of American Segregation.
Separate But Equal. Of all America's variously Orwellian brandings, few have wrought as much human suffering as those three words. It is...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Of Gifted Children and the Banality of Menstruation: The Educational Psychology of Leta Hollingworth
What do you do with a gifted child? A child who learns new concepts three or four times faster than his contemporaries, often withdraws...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 26, 2023
Midwife to a Nation: Madame du Coudray and the King’s Commission to Professionalize Childbirth
Midwife. Few words in the history of western medicine can evoke sudden and unequivocal academic tribal sentiment as that single term. To...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 26, 2023
Founder’s Curse: The Hard Rise and Long Fall of Elizabeth Blackwell, the First Woman MD
The long life of Elizabeth Blackwell (1818–1910), the world’s first woman to earn a medical degree, can be divided into two roughly equal...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
‘The Somewhat Nerve-Wearing Experience’: Sarah Frances Whiting Rewrites Women’s Science Education
In the 1860s and 1870s, women’s access to advanced astronomical instruction in the United States took a sudden and majestic turn for the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 22, 2023
The Path of Most Resistance: Sophia Jex-Blake and the Fight for Women’s Medical Education
She had founded first England’s and then Scotland’s first medical school for women, and been instrumental in the passing of the Medical...
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