Isaac Leon Kandel

1881 – 1965

Isaac Leon Kandel, M.A., Ph.D. was an American educator born in Romania. He studied at Manchester, England, Columbia University, and the University of Jena, (Germany). For several years, he taught at schools in Ireland, then became a scholar and teaching professor at Columbia (1908–10). In 1914, Professor Kandel became a specialist of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He was a contributor to several encyclopedias, and the author of several scholarly articles and books on education.

• Comparative education
• Hacia una profesión docente
• American education in the twentieth century
• American Education in the Twentieth Century
• Comparative education
• Comparative education: studies of the educational systems of six modern nations
• Conflicting theories of education
• Education in Great Britain and Ireland
• Essays in comparative education
• Examinations and their substitutes in the United States
• Federal aid for vocational education
• History of secondary education