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  2. James Rowland Angell - Wikipedia

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    Angell was born on May 8, 1869, in Burlington, Vermont. He was born into one of the stellar academic families in American history. A sixth-generation descendant of Thomas Angell who settled Providence, Rhode Island, James's father, James Burrill Angell, was the president of the University of Vermont and thence president of the University of Michigan.

  3. Reading - Wikipedia

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    Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch. [1] [2] [3] [4]For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.

  4. Functional linguistics - Wikipedia

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    The structuralist functionalism of the Prague school was the earliest functionalist framework developed in the 1920s. [28] [29] André Martinet's Functional Syntax, with two major books, A functional view of language (1962) and Studies in Functional Syntax (1975). Martinet is one of the most famous French linguists and can be regarded as the ...

  5. Educational management - Wikipedia

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    The educational-technology branch of an education system conceptualizes and develops ICT in education, integrating it with curriculum frameworks, staff development and management. The focus of educational technology has shifted to online and web-based applications, learning portals, flipped classrooms and a variety of social networks for ...

  6. Copenhagen School (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The basic work of the school is Dansk Funktionel Grammatik (Danish Functional Grammar) by Harder (2006). Recent developments in the school include Ole Nedergaard Thomsen’s Functional Discourse Pragmatics. In the following the two stages of the Copenhagen School will be described as 1. The glossematic school and 2. Danish functional linguistics.

  7. Erich Fromm - Wikipedia

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    Erich Fromm was born on March 23, 1900, at Frankfurt am Main, the only child of Rosa (Krause) and Naphtali Fromm. [5] He started his academic studies in 1918 at the University of Frankfurt am Main with two semesters of jurisprudence.

  8. List of founders of English schools and colleges - Wikipedia

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    Newland Grammar School c. 1445 John Colet: St Paul's School: 1509 Hugh Oldham: Manchester Grammar School: 1515 Thomas Horsley Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1525 William Radcliffe Stamford School: 1532 John Incent: Berkhamsted Collegiate School: 1541 King Henry VIII: Durham School. The King's School, Canterbury King's Ely The King's ...

  9. Arthur Henry White - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Henry White (March 30, 1924 – August 25, 2014) was an American businessman and humanitarian. [1] [2] He was a co-founder and vice chairman of Yankelovich Partners, Inc., [3] a research and consulting firm; a co-founder of Reading Is Fundamental, [4] the largest non-profit children's literacy organization in the world; and a founder of Jobs for the Future, [5] a non-profit organization ...