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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. International English Language Testing System - Wikipedia

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    International English Language Testing System (IELTS / ˈ aɪ. ɛ l t s /) [6] is an international standardized test of English language proficiency for non-native English language speakers. It is jointly managed by the British Council, IDP and Cambridge English, [6] and was established in 1989. IELTS is one of the major English-language tests ...

  4. Test of English as a Foreign Language - Wikipedia

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    Reading Comprehension (55 minutes) The Reading Comprehension section has 50 questions about reading passages. Harder questions are worth two scores. Writing (30 minutes) The TOEFL PBT administrations include a writing test called the Test of Written English (TWE). This is one essay question with 250–300 words on average. [14]

  5. Georges Doriot - Wikipedia

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    Georges Frédéric Doriot (September 24, 1899 – June 2, 1987 [1]) was a French-American known for his prolific careers in military, academics, business and education.. An émigré from France, Doriot became a professor of Industrial Management at Harvard Business School and then director of the U.S. Army's Military Planning Division, Quartermaster General, during World War II, eventually ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. History of education - Wikipedia

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    The once and future school: Three hundred and fifty years of American secondary education (1996). Parkerson Donald H., and Jo Ann Parkerson. Transitions in American education: a social history of teaching (2001) online; Reese, William J. America's Public Schools: From the Common School to No Child Left Behind (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2005 ...

  8. Max Gluckman - Wikipedia

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    Gluckman combined the British school of structural-functionalism with a Marxist focus on inequality and oppression, creating a critique of colonialism from within structuralism. In his research on Zululand in South Africa, he argued that the African and European communities formed a single social system, one whose schism into two racial groups ...

  9. 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.