Michael Scriven, a longtime Inverness resident who won a chance to meet Albert Einstein and was known as the godfather of the academic discipline of evaluation, died last month at a retirement community in San Rafael. He was 95 years old.
Mr. Scriven was a master of many subjects and could offer nuanced arguments on philosophy, mathematics, computer science, psychology and education—not to mention knives, fast cars, rowing and parapsychology. He was best known for…