Ralph W. Tyler

(1902-1994) lived in Crete, Saline County, and in Lincoln. Educator, author, a national educational leader who initiated the National Assessment of Education Progress in the 1960s, and first results suggested that knowledge of learners is greater when textbook information was reinforced by experiences, was known for his contributions to policy, evaluation, testing, and curriculum development. Consult Phi Delta Kappan, October 1967, pp. 75-77 and Contemporary Authors, Vol 109 (Gale 1983) 482-483 and New York Times obituary, February 23, 1994, p. A-17 and Joy A. Palmer ED, Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education (Routledge, 2001) pp 54-58 and Morris Finder, Educating America: How Ralph W. Tyler Taught America to Teach (Praeger, 2004).

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