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Raymond Franzen
1895–1965
A writer and researcher whose books explored education, child growth, and public health in the early 20th century. His work ranges from testing and textbook selection to school health and dental care in children.
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About the author
Raymond Franzen was an American nonfiction writer and researcher active in the fields of education, psychology, and child health. Library and archive records identify him as the author of works published from the 1920s into the 1930s, including The Accomplishment Ratio, Textbook Selection (with F. B. Knight), and studies on school health, nutrition, and dental decay in children.
His published work shows a strong interest in how children learn and develop, and in how schools measure achievement and health. Several of his books were issued by Teachers College, Columbia University or the American Child Health Association, suggesting a career connected to educational measurement and public-health research.
Although detailed biographical information is hard to confirm from the sources available here, his bibliography makes his interests clear: he wrote practical, data-focused studies about children, schools, and health at a time when those subjects were becoming major areas of modern research.