# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deborah-meier
# Generated: 2026-09-04T21:08:15.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deborah-meier"
name: "Deborah Meier"
slug: "deborah-meier"
description: "Deborah Meier is an American educator who is known for promoting the modern small schools movement. After spending several years as a kindergarten teacher in Chicago, Philadelphia and then New York City, in 1974, Meier became the founder and director of the alternative Central Park East school, which embraced progressive ideals in the tradition of John Dewey in an effort to provide better education for children in East Harlem, within the New York City public school system."
tagline: "American educator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Deborah_Meier_head_shot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Educators"
  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1931-04-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.475774666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://deborahmeier.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Meier"
    title: "Deborah Meier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ديبورا ماير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ديبورا ماير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Meier"
    title: "Deborah Meier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Meier"
    title: "Deborah Meier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Мейер, Дебора"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5248331"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump