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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, better known as W.E.B. Du Bois, was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Du Bois graduated as valedictorian from both Great Barrington High School and Fisk University. He then went on to graduate school at Harvard where he graduated cum laude and received his doctorate. Du Bois worked as an instructor at Wilberforce University and the University of Pennsylvania. He then became a professor at Atlanta University. At Atlanta University, Du Bois organized the Atlanta University Studies of the Negro Problem. Later, he became a cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Throughout his lifetime, Du Bois published a number of essays. One of his most famous was The Souls of Black Folks, which attacked Booker T. Washington’s arguments that black people should not seek social change until they had raised their economic status. Du Bois’s major statement in the black revolution is that they should not just accept their status quo. He demanded full civil rights for all blacks and provided strong leadership for those who wanted to fight for justice. W.E.B. Du Bois died on August 27, 1963.

W.E.B. Du Bois; A Scholar Activist. By James Neyland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.E.B._DuBois
www.duboislc.org/man.html
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/dubois
Ellwood Patterson Cubberley was born on June 6, 1868, in Antiock (later Andrews), Indiana. Cubberley attended the local school in Antiock and then went to preparatory school at Purdue University. He then went on to Indiana University where he completed his Bachelors Degree. Cubberley worked as a teacher in a one-room school in Indiana and then began teaching science at a Baptist college in Ridgeville. In the fall of 1891 he became a professor of physical science at Vincennes University and later became the president. Cubberley took a job as the superintendent of a group of schools in San Diego. Through this job Cubberley developed the theories that school boards should be non-political and that executive autonomy was crucial to efficiency in education. Cubberley then took a job naming him head of the Department of Education at Stanford University. He became a full time professor at Stanford and in 1917, the trustees created a professional school of education and make Cubberley its first dean. Cubberely took a leave from work to go to a Teachers College where he worked on his Ph.D.

Cubberley saw education as social engineering and the schools as instruments of progress. He felt as though children needed to acquire a certain skill and knowledge from schools because informal processes of church and home could not meet the needs of urban and industrial society. Cubberley wrote a number of books throughout his lifetime. A bestseller, Public School Administration, sold over 100,000 copies. Other books and textbooks were written and sold, one being A History of Education. Cubberley, through the money he made off his books, gave the Stanford School of Education a brand new 535,000 building, and to show their appreciation, the building was dedicated to him. Cubberley died in on September 14, 1941 of a heart attack.

A History of Education. By Ellwood Cubberley
http://www.answers.com/topic/cubberley-ellwood-patterson
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,760320,00.html
http://:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ellwood_patterson_cubberley