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  2. History of education - Wikipedia

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    Much of this education was conducted in so-called temple schools , derived from earlier Buddhist schools. These schools were no longer religious institutions, nor were they, by 1867, predominantly located in temples. By the end of the Tokugawa period, there were more than 11,000 such schools, attended by 750,000 students.

  3. History of PDF - Wikipedia

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    The final revised documentation for PDF 1.7 was approved by ISO Technical Committee 171 in January 2008 and published as ISO 32000-1:2008 on July 1, 2008, and titled Document management – Portable document format – Part 1: PDF 1.7. ISO 32000-1:2008 is the first ISO standard for full function PDF.

  4. Textbook - Wikipedia

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    If a professor chooses to use the same book the following semester, even if it is a custom text, designed specifically for an individual instructor, bookstores often buy the book back. The GAO report found that, generally, if a book is in good condition and will be used on the campus again the next term, bookstores will pay students 50 percent ...

  5. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Spain had small settlements in Florida, the Southwest, and also controlled Louisiana. There is little evidence that they schooled any girls. Parish schools were administered by Jesuits or Franciscans and were limited to male students. [56] Excerpt from The New England Primer of 1690, the most popular American textbook of the 18th century

  6. History of books - Wikipedia

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    Books rolled out horizontally; the text occupied one side and was divided into columns. The title was indicated by a label attached to the cylinder containing the book. Many papyrus texts come from tombs, where prayers and sacred texts were deposited (such as the Book of the Dead, from the early 2nd millennium BCE).

  7. 5 JCPS schools were built more than 100 years ago. Here they are

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    Building the new school was estimated to cost a little more than $10 million, while renovations were projected at $9.6 million. Ruby King, a kindergartner at Bloom Elementary, during the school's ...

  8. Factory model school - Wikipedia

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    Gatto's text has been cited by multiple non-fiction books on education, including The End of Average by Todd Rose (2015) and Schools on Trial by Nikhil Goyal (2016), both of which use the phrase to advocate a particular set of changes. Gatto does not explain how he reached the conclusion Mann wanted schools that worked like, or looked like ...

  9. ‘Reservation Dogs’ Uses 1970s Horror Motifs to Tell the Cruel ...

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    In what may be one of the most powerful and stirring episodes of the entire run of FX’s “Reservation Dogs,” the series this week took on the horror of assimilation “Indian boarding schools ...