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Robert William Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was an American minister and high school English teacher best known for writing a diary of 37.5 million words, which chronicled every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.
18 million: 70 years: 1859–1890: Witt (1799–1892) was born in Germany, lived in Peru, and wrote in English. [9] Arthur Crew Inman: 17 million: 44 years: 1919–1963: 155 volumes. [10] Other accounts state 10 million words. [11] Nella Last: 12 million [12] 28 years: 1939–1967: Participant in Mass Observation project. Dr. John Henry Salter ...
The term 30-million-word gap (often shortened to just word gap) was originally coined by Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley in their book Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children, [1] and subsequently reprinted in the article "The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3". [2]
In 1994, the Chinese government allowed School Year Abroad to begin a program in Beijing. It was the first of its kind at either a high school or college level, with students being placed in host families for the full school year. The program operated out of the Second High School Attached to Beijing Normal University. SYA China was open to ...
Just 67% of eighth-graders score at or above a basic level. American students’ reading skills are at their lowest level since testing began over 30 years ago
The number of students studying degrees from British universities abroad has risen to nearly 600,000, a report has suggested. ... “Over half a million people study for UK higher education ...
More than one million children and 31,000 teachers have been unable to return to their classrooms in Burkina Faso due to violence and insecurity as the West African nation starts another academic ...
2 Million Minutes is a series of documentary films exploring how students in the United States, India, and the People's Republic of China spend the nominal 2,000,000 minutes of their high school years. [1] The film has been supported by Newt Gingrich and Al Sharpton. [2]