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Urie Bronfenbrenner
“Co-founder of the Head start Program” Urie Bronfenbrenner was born April 29, 1917 in Moscow, Russia to Dr. Alexander and Eugine Kamentski Bronfenbrenner. At the age of 6, they came to the United States. He graduated High School in Haverstraw, New York in the year 1923. He then completed a double major in psychology and music from Cornell University in 1938. Two years later, he completed his Master’s in education at Harvard University. Finally in the year 1942 he received his PhD from The University of Michigan. Urie married a woman by the name of Liese Price in 1942. Together they had 6 children, two of them boys and four of them girls. They also over the years became grandparents to thirteen grandchildren and one great grandchild. Urie lived until he was 88 years old after having complications from diabetes. He died on September 25, 2005 in Ithaca, NY in the comfort of his own home. When he died, he was the Jacob Gould Schurman …show more content…

Through articles, lectures and discussions Urie was widely published. These widely published contributions won him awards and honors. There is an award presented annually in his favor, it is called “The Bronfenbrenner Award” which was made in 1996. It is for “Lifetime Contributions to developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society” from the American Psychological Association. Urie Bronfenbrenner urges family ties. He says that we need to study together all areas rather than separately. He insists that people need to act upon the knowledge given to us for improvements in the lives of children. He argues that all the individuals in children’s lives allow them to live up to their biological potential. I agree. Today children’s values are diminishing by the way parents are teaching them. If we don’t continue Urie’s work I believe his challenge will no longer be

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