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==Background== Terman was born in [[Johnson County, Indiana]], the son of Martha P. (Cutsinger) and James William Terman.<ref name="Reef">{{cite book |last1=Reef |first1=Catherine |title=Education and Learning in America |date=2010 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-2690-6 |page=343 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0oaFuSi5Hd0C |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9LuaAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA419 | title=Lewis Madison Terman, 1877-1956: A Biographical Memoire by Edwin G. Boring| last1=Boring| first1=Edwin Garrigues| year=1959 |publisher=Stanford University Press}}</ref> He received a [[Bachelor of Science]], BPd (Bachelor of Pedagogy), and [[Bachelor of Arts]] from [[Central Normal College]] in 1894 and 1898, and a BA and [[Master of Arts]] from the [[Indiana University Bloomington]] in 1903. He received his [[PhD]] from [[Clark University]] in 1905. He worked as a school principal in [[San Bernardino, California]] in 1905, and as a professor at [[Los Angeles Normal School]] in 1907. In 1910, he joined the faculty of [[Stanford University]] as a professor of [[educational psychology]] at the invitation of [[Ellwood Patterson Cubberley]] and remained associated with the university until his death. He served as chairman of the psychology department from 1922 to 1945. His son, [[Frederick Terman]], is widely credited (together with [[William Shockley]]) with being the father of [[Silicon Valley]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.paloaltohistory.com/stanfordresearchpark.html |title=Palo Alto History Project |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116012546/http://www.paloaltohistory.com/stanfordresearchpark.html |archive-date=2010-01-16 |access-date=2015-05-05}}</ref>
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