Biography
Benjamin Samuel Bloom was born on February 21, 1913, in Lansford, Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Pennsylvania State University in 1935. In March 1942, he received his education Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Bloom died on September 13, 1999.
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