Notable members •
Merry Ann Thompson Wright, president general of the
Daughters of the American Revolution •
Ruth Westheimer, professor, sex therapist and talk show host.
Laureates Since 1924, 293 eminent educators have been named to Kappa Delta Pi's Laureate chapter. •
Grace Abbott (1936), social worker and director of the
United States Children's Bureau •
Frank Aydelotte (1953), president of
Swarthmore College •
Bill Ayers (2000), co-founded the militant organization the
Weather Underground; professor in the College of Education at the
University of Illinois at Chicago •
William Bagley (1928) director of the School of Education at the
University of Illinois and professor of education at
Teachers College, Columbia University •
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1945),
horticulturist, reformer of rural life, and cofounder of the
American Society for Horticultural Science •
Stephen Ball (2015), sociologist and former
Karl Mannheim Professor of
Sociology of Education at the
Institute of Education of
University College London •
Harold R. W. Benjamin (1949), educator and writer •
David Berliner (1997), professor and dean of the
Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education •
Martha Berry (1941), founder of
Berry College •
Benjamin Bloom (1984),
educational psychologist •
Boyd Henry Bode (1936), professor at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and
Ohio State University known for his work on
philosophy of education •
Derek Bok (1997), president of
Harvard University and
Dean of Harvard Law School •
Ernest L. Boyer (1982),
United States Commissioner of Education, chancellor of the
State University of New York, and president of the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching •
John Brademas (1990),
Majority Whip of the United States House of Representative and chairman of the board of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York •
Theodore Brameld (1972),
philosopher and
educator who supported the educational philosophy of
social reconstructionism •
Harry Broudy (1968), professor of the philosophy of education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign •
George Washington Carver (1942), botanist and professor at the
Tuskegee Institute who promoted alternative crops to
cotton and methods to prevent
soil depletion •
James B. Conant (1942) chemist •
John Dewey (1925) philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer •
Albert Einstein (1950),
theoretical physicist known for developing the
theory of relativity •
J. William Fulbright (1956)
United States Senator and
U.S. House of Representatives •
Howard Gardner (1961) developmental psychologist •
Henry A. Giroux (1997) scholar and cultural critic •
Maxine Greene (1988), philosopher •
Robert Maynard Hutchins (1946), philosopher •
William Heard Kilpatrick (1926), pedagogue •
Alfie Kohn (2003), author and lecturer •
Jonathan Kozol (1997), activist and educator •
Margaret Mead (1962),
cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker •
Nel Noddings (1994), feminist, philosopher, and educator •
Jean Piaget (1974), psychologist known for his work on
child development •
Eleanor Roosevelt (1949), diplomat, activist, and
First Lady of the United States ==Further reading==