(Denver, 6 January 1922 – Fayetteville, Arkansas, July 18, 2005) was an author, educator, educational critic and reformer, and academic professor.
Trace was best known as the author of What Ivan Knows that Johnny Doesn’t (1961), published by Random House during the Sputnik era, at the height of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
In this book, he sought to upend the then commonly held opinion that although the United States seemed to lag behind the Soviet Union in the teaching of science and mathematics, it was superior in the teaching of the humanities.