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Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (June 6, 1868 – September 14, 1941) was an American educator, a eugenicist, and a pioneer in the field of education management. He spent most of his career as a professor and later served as the first dean of the Stanford University Graduate School of Education in California.
Jun 2, 2024 · Ellwood Cubberley was an American educator and administrator who—as head (1898–1933) of Stanford University’s department of education and, later, its School of Education—helped establish education as a university-level subject.
An influential educator in the field of educational administration, Ellwood Patterson Cubberley helped guide the teacher education curriculum in the early twentieth century through his edited textbook series.
May 18, 2018 · Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1868-1941), an early 20th-century educator and university dean, wrote influential textbooks in the history of education and public school administration. He played a major role in the professionalization of teaching and administration and in elevating education to a university study.
Ellwood Cubberley (1868 - 1941) was a professor and dean at Stanford’s School of Education. Along with his colleague Lewis Terman, Cubberley promoted a eugenic approach to education: finding the most eugenically gifted children and allocating the most resources to their education.
In 1898, Stanford president David Starr Jordan asked Ellwood Patterson Cubberley, a former teacher and then superintendent of the San Diego schools, to "take charge of an embryo department of education at this embryo university."
Ellwood Patterson Cubberley was born in Andrews, Indiana June 8, 1868. In 1891 Cubberley received an A.B. from Indiana University, where he met David Starr Jordan, who was president of the university. Cubberley received an M.A. in 1902 and a Ph.D. in 1905, both from Columbia University.
