William G. Perry, Jr.
William G. Perry Jr. (1913 – January 12, 1998) was a well-known educational psychologist who studied the cognitive development of students during their college years. Life and career William Graves Perry Jr. was born in Paris and graduated from Harvard University. He was the son of architect William G. Perry (architect), William G. Perry and Eleanor Gray (Bodine) Perry. He was a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and founder and longtime director of the Bureau of Study Counsel. While at Harvard, he developed his theory of the intellectual and cognitive development of college-age students through a 15-year study during the 1950s and 1960s. He published his work in 1970 as ''Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years''. His work was very influential in the field of student development. Perry also William G. Perry translation of The Iliad, translated, with Alsten Hurd Chase, Homer's ''Iliad''. Perry's scheme The Perry ...
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ...
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