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PARKER, Franklin was born on June 2, 1921 in New York, United States.
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International merchant and financier, benefactor of numerous philanthropies both in the United States and England, and the first American to be named an honorary citizen of the City of London, George Peabody never departed from the Puritan principles of industry, frugality, and humility by which he was reared. Born in 1795 to a Massachusetts family of modest means, Peabody received only four years of formal education. He was making his own way at the age of seventeen. By the time he was twenty-two, he had amassed more than forty thousand dollars; when he was thirty-two his assets amounted to $85,000. After moving to London in 1837, Peabody gained a multi-million dollar fortune through shrewd investments and a reputation for impeccable honesty and integrity. It is for his philanthropies, however, that Peabody is best remembered. A bachelor, he decided early to devote himself to the support of deserving causes. The Peabody Institute in Baltimore is considered a forerunner of the numerous foundations in America today. Peabody Institutes in other cities, Peabody Public Libraries, Peabody Museums of Science, the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and the Peabody Homes for the "industrious poor" in London all owe their existence to the benevolence of George Peabody. In the Southern states after the Civil War, he established the Peabody Education Fund, which made the free education of all races a public obligation. From this movement emerged George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, still regarded as one of the premier schools of education in this country. In addition to an account of Peabody's accomplishments, this book offers a picture of Peabody the man - hisbroken engagement, his famous Fourth of July banquets in London, his troubles with gout, his worry over his nephew's extravagance, his distress about the Civil War - as well as the aura of the Victorian society in which he lived.
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PARKER, Franklin was born on June 2, 1921 in New York, United States.
Bachelor, Berea College, 1949. Master of Science, University Illinois, 1950. Doctor of Education, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, 1956.
Librarian, speech teacher Ferrum (Virginia) College, 1950-1952. Librarian Belmont College, Nashville, 1952-1954. Circulation librarian George Peabody College Teachers Vanderbilt University, 1955-1956.
Associate professor education State University of New York, New Paltz, 1956-1957, University Texas, Austin, 1957-1964. Professor education University Oklahoma, Norman, 1964-1968. Benedum professor education emeritus West Virginia University, Morgantown, 1968-1986.
Professor emeritus, 1986. Distinguished visiting professor Center for Excellence in Education Northern Arizona University, 1986-1989. Distinguished visiting professor College Education and Psychology Western Carolina University, 1989-1994.
Research fellow University College Rhodesia, Africa, 1957-1958, Rhodes-Livingstone Institute Social Research, Africa, 1961-1962. Visiting professor education University Calgary, Alberta, Canada, summer 1969, University Alberta, Edmonton, summer 1970, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, summer 1971, University Lethbridge, Canada, (summers) 1971-1973, Memorial University, Newfoundland, summer 1974. Member International Conference African Administration, Cambridge, (England) University, 1957, European Bureau Adult Education, Finland and Federal Republic of Germany, 1966, national conference White House Conference on Education, 1965, National Foreign Policy Conference of Educators Department State, 1966.
Consultant Office Education Department of Health, 1970-1975, National Science Foundation, 1980-1986. Consultant publications Macmillan, Merrill, Teachers College Press, Wm. C. Brown, since 1988.
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Author: African Development and Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1960, 74, Africa South of the Sahara, 1966, George Peabody, A Biography, 1971, review edition, 1995, The Battle of the Books: Kanawha Country, 1975, What Can We Learn from the Schools of China?, 1977, British Schools and Ours, 1979. Co-author: John Dewey: Master Educator, 2d review edition, 1961, Government Policy and International Education, 1965, Church and State in Education, 1966, Strategies for Curriculum Change: Cases from 13 Nations, 1968, Dimensions of Physical Education, 1969, International Education: Understandings and Misunderstandings, 1969, Understanding the American Public High School, 1969, Education in Southern Africa, 1970, Curriculum for Man in an International World, 1971, Administrative Dimensions of Health and Physical Education Programs, Including Athletics, 1971, Education and the Many Faces of the Disadvantaged, 1972, The Saber-Tooth Curriculum, memorial edition, 1972, Accelerated Development in Southern Africa, 1974, Myth and Reality: A Reader in Education, 1975, Six Questions: Controversy and Conflict in Education, 1975, Crucial Issues in Education, 6th review edition, 1977, Censorship and Education, 1981, Academic Profiles in Higher Education, 1993. Series compiler and editor American Dissertations on Foreign Education, A Bibliography with Abstracts, volunteer I Canada, 1971, volunteer II India, 1972, vol III Japan, 1972, volunteer IV Africa, 1973, volunteer V Scandinavia, 1974, volunteer VI China, 1975, volunteer VII Korea, 1976, volunteer VIII Mexico, 1976, volunteer IX South American, 1977, volunteer X Center American, 1978, volunteer XI Pakistan, Bangladesh, 1979, Volunteer XII Iran and Iraq, 1980, volunteer XIII Israel, 1980, volunteer XIV Middle East, 1981, volunteer XV Thailand, 1983, volunteer XVI Asia, 1985, volunteer XVII Pacific, 1986, volunteer XVIII Philippines, 1986, volunteer XIX Australia and New Zealand, 1988, volunteer XX Great Britain, 1990.
(with Betty June Parker) Education in Puerto Rico and of Puerto Ricans in the United States of America, volunteer I, 1978, volunteer II, 1984. Women's Education--A World View: Annotated Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations volunteer I, 1979. United States Higher Education: A Guide to Information Sources, 1980.
Women's Education--A World View: Annotated Bibliography of Books and Reports, volunteer II, 1981, Education in the People's Republic of China, Past and Present: Annotated Bibliography, 1986, Education in England and Wales: An Annotated Bibliography, 1991. Special consultant United States and international education terms The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, second edition, 1987. Member editorial board Journal of Thought, 1965-1980, Western Carolina University Journal Education, 1969-1976, West Virginia University Magazine, 1969-1978, Educational Studies, 1975-1977, Review Education, 1977-1986, Core (Collected Original Resources in Education), since 1977, International Jour African History Studies, 1977-1986 Education Digest, 1976-1980, United States of America Today, since 1981, Collier's Yearbook, 1965-1972, Compton's Yearbook, 1965-1966, Dictionary of America Biography, supplement 5, 1951-1955, 77, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volunteer 8, 1973, volunteer 10, 1974, volunteer 14, 1976, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography, 1973, Academy American Encyclopedia, 1979, Reader's Digest Almanac and Yearbook, 1968-1973, Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 1998, others.
Member editorial board, regular contributor Americana Annual, 1961-1989.
Served with United States Army Air Force, 1942-1946. Member African Studies Association, Southwest Philosophy Education Society (president 1960), American Academy Political and Social Science, American Educational Research Association, United States Comparative and International Education Society (feature writer 1963-1968, vice president 1963-1964, international secretary 1965-1968), Canada Comparative and International Education Society, Comparative Education Society Europe, History Education Society (president 1963-1964), Appalachian Writers Association, Kappa Delta Pi (life member, Harold R.W. Benjamin fellow international education 1957-1958, secretary committee on international education 1968-1970), Phi Delta Kappa (life, research award chairman commission on international relations in education 1963-1967), Phi Gamma Mu, Phi Kappa Phi (life).
Married Betty June Parker, June 12, 1950.