Carl Salser

Carl Walter Salser, Jr. (16 August 1921 – 11 April 2006) was an American author, businessperson and educator.

With the outbreak of World War II he served as a Navy Corpsman, stationed at the Naval Hospital in Corona, California before being ordered to the Pacific Theater of Operations where he participated in the Battle of Okinawa.

They opened a men's clothing store and a restaurant that also served the training table for the OSU college football team, before joining McGraw-Hill Publishing and moving to Portland, Oregon.

Beginning in 1965 he led the development of the Individualized instruction system of school and classroom management.

He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the National Council on Educational Research (NCER) on 28 May 1982.