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  2. History of education - Wikipedia

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    At the height of the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, the Roman educational system gradually found its final form. Formal schools were established, which served paying students (very little in the way of free public education as we know it can be found). [37] Normally, both boys and girls were educated, though not necessarily together ...

  3. History of education in ancient Israel and Judah - Wikipedia

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    While curriculum and texts for schools has been found in other areas of the ancient near east, no direct evidence—either literary or archaeological—exists for schools in ancient Israel. [1] There is no word for school in ancient (biblical) Hebrew, [ 1 ] the earliest reference to a "house of study" (bet hammidrash) is found in the mid ...

  4. List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century)

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    It became a Victorian public school. [49] Risley Grammar School 1598 Defunct Sir Michael and Catherine Willoughby left manor of Wilstthorp to pay for a free grammar school at Risley, near Derby. Today the buildings are divided between The Latin School and a Church of England Primary School. [6] Wirksworth Grammar School Anthony Gell School: 1575

  5. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Southern Blacks wanted public schools for their children but they did not demand racially integrated schools. Almost all the new public schools were segregated, apart from a few in New Orleans. After the Republicans lost power in the mid-1870s, conservative whites retained the public school systems but sharply cut their funding. [128]

  6. Dame school - Wikipedia

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    These schools were taught by a “school dame,” a local woman who would care for and teach ABCs for a small fee. [1] Dame schools were localized, and could typically be found at the town or parish level. [2] At dame schools, children could be expected to learn reading and arithmetic, and were sometimes also educated in writing.

  7. History of Catholic education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The number of schools and students grew apace with the taxpayer-funded public schools. In 1900, the Church supported 3,500 parochial schools, usually under the control of the local parish. By 1920, the number of elementary schools had reached 6,551, enrolling 1.8 million pupils taught by 42,000 teachers, the great majority of whom were nuns.

  8. Nauvoo Temple - Wikipedia

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    In 2000, the church began to build a temple on the original site with an exterior that is a replica of the first temple, but whose interior is laid out like a modern Latter-day Saint temple. On June 27, 2002, a date that coincided with the 158th anniversary of the death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith , the temple was dedicated by the LDS Church as ...

  9. Factory model school - Wikipedia

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    The first public use of the term "factory model schools" to describe K-12 education was Dr. Howard Lamb in a speech in September, 1972. The Greenville News reported: "The educational institutions are producing teachers for the 1920 factory model schools, Lamb said."