Editing Benjamin Bloom (section)

== Early life and education ==
Bloom was born in [[Lansford, Pennsylvania]], to an immigrant Jewish family. His parents fled a climate of discrimination in Russia.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present Day|last1=Bresler|first1=Liora|last2=Cooper|first2=David|last3=Palmer|first3=Joy|publisher=Routledge|year=2002|isbn=041522408X|location=Oxon|pages=[https://archive.org/details/fiftymodernthink0000unse/page/86 86]|url=https://archive.org/details/fiftymodernthink0000unse/page/86}}</ref> {{Obsolete source|reason=Removed from Archive.org|date=March 2022}} He received a bachelor's degree from [[Pennsylvania State University]] in 1935 and a master's degree from Penn State, also in 1935. He received a doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1942 and joined its faculty in 1944.<ref name=honanwilliam>{{cite news |last1=Honan |first1=William |title=Benjamin Bloom, 86, a Leader In the Creation of Head Start |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/15/us/benjamin-bloom-86-a-leader-in-the-creation-of-head-start.html |agency=New York Times |date=September 15, 1999}}</ref>

From 1965-1966, he served as president of the [[American Educational Research Association]].<ref name=honanwilliam/>