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Alan Peshkin

professor of education

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ18926939 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alan "Buddy" Peshkin (1931 – December 7, 2000) was Professor of Education at Stanford University. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973.

Editorial summary

“Alan Peshkin” enters the record as professor of education. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alan, Peshkin and professor can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1931, 2000, 1973—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1931. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alan, Peshkin and professor.
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Why this record matters

“Alan Peshkin” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Alan, Peshkin and professor provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18926939. VIAF identifies the subject as 45652350. The Library of Congress control number is n82117602. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1931, 2000 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alan Peshkin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.