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2. Early life of Isaac Newton - Wikipedia

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   Sir Isaac Newton at 46 in Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait. The following article is part of a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, the English mathematician and scientist, author of the Principia. It portrays the years after Newton's birth in 1643, his education, as well as his early scientific contributions, before the writing of his main work, the Principia Mathematica, in 1685. Overview of Newton ...

3. Free grammar school - Wikipedia

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   Ashbourne Free Grammar School. Free grammar schools were schools which usually operated under the jurisdiction of the church in pre-modern England.Education had long been associated with religious institutions since a cathedral grammar school was established at Canterbury under the authority of St Augustine's church and King Ethelbert at the end of the 6th century. [1]

4. History of education in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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   They were publicly supplied at the local town level; they were not free but were supported by tuition or rate bills. The larger towns in New England opened grammar schools, the forerunner of the modern high school. [6] The most famous was the Boston Latin School, which is still in operation as a public high school.

5. Grammar school - Wikipedia

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   A girls' grammar school established in a town with an older boys' grammar school would often be named a "high school". Under the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act 1907 all grant-aided secondary schools were required to provide at least 25 percent of their places as free scholarships for students from public elementary schools. Grammar ...

6. Simple English Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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   Simple English Wikipedia was launched on September 18, 2001. [1]In 2012, Andrew Lih, a Wikipedian and author, told NBC News' Helen A.S. Popkin that the Simple English Wikipedia does not "have a high standing in the Wikipedia community," and added that it never had a clear purpose: "Is it for people under the age 14, or just a simpler version of complex articles?", wrote Popkin.

7. Content-based instruction - Wikipedia

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   As educators realized that in order to successfully complete an academic task, second language (L2) learners have to master both English as a language form (grammar, vocabulary etc.) and how English is used in core content classes, they started to implement various approaches such as Sheltered instruction and learning to learn in CBI classes ...