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Two children from Tamil Nadu holding a Samacheer Kalvi textbook. Samacheer Kalvi or Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education or Equitable education system is a School Education Department of Government of Tamil Nadu, India programme to integrate the various school educational systems within the state.
The Modified Scheme of Elementary Education or New Scheme of Elementary Education or Madras Scheme of Elementary Education dubbed by its critics as Kula Kalvi Thittam (Hereditary Education Policy), was an abortive attempt at education reform introduced by the Indian National Congress Government of the Madras State, led by C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji) in 1953.
Based on the report and recommendations of the Kothari Commission (1964–1966), the government headed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced the first National Policy on Education in 1968, which called for a "radical restructuring" and proposed equal educational opportunities in order to achieve national integration and greater cultural and economic development. [3]
During the 1960s and 1970s, the John Harvard Library consisted mainly of authoritative reprints of documents from the colonial era of American history. Among the most noted of these are Bernard Bailyn's edition of Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776; Anne Bradstreet's collected works; and the Life of George Washington by Mason L. Weems.
The Harvard Oriental Series is a book series founded in 1891 by Charles Rockwell Lanman and Henry Clarke Warren. Lanman served as its inaugural editor (1891–1934) for the first 37 volumes. Lanman served as its inaugural editor (1891–1934) for the first 37 volumes.
Notable alumni of the Harvard Educational Review include: Lisa Delpit, educationalist and MacArthur Fellow; Eve L. Ewing, sociologist, author, poet, and visual artist; Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, educational sociologist and MacArthur Fellow; Orval Hobart Mowrer, psychologist and former president of the American Psychological Association
The last edition of The Harvard Classics printed by P.F. Collier & Son (then a subsidiary of Crowell Collier & Macmillan, Inc.) was the 63rd printing in 1970 of a 22-volume called the "Great Literature Edition" in green fibrated (essentially bonded) leather with 22K decor that sold for $3.78 per volume ($1 each for the first three volumes).
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.Founded October 28, 1636, and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.