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Schools in the West: Essays in Canadian Educational History (1986) Shook, Laurence K. Catholic Post-Secondary Education in English-Speaking Canada: A History (University of Toronto Press, 1971). Stamp, Robert M. and J. Donald Wilson eds., Canadian education: A history (1970) Stamp, Robert M. The schools of Ontario, 1876-1976 (U of Toronto Press ...
A balanced cross-continental sample of 1800 Canadians and 360 Americans [98] the Canada and the USA is the result of Boberg's North American Regional Vocabulary Survey (NARVS), a questionnaire employed by Boberg from 1999-2007 [99] that sought out lexical items that vary regionally within Canada.
These types were gradually combined around 1900 to form elementary schools, which were also known as "grammar schools". [71] [72] An analogous concept to the contemporary English grammar school is the magnet school, a state-funded secondary institution that may select students from a given school district according to academic criteria. [73]
St. Johns Common School is the oldest extant public school in Ontario. Upper Canada's Grammar School Act of 1807 provided the first public funds for schools in what would become Ontario. Eight schools were opened. [12] 1804: St. Johns Common School in St. Johns was one of Ontario's first schools.
Canada spends an average of about 5.3 percent of its GDP on education. [30] The country invests heavily in tertiary education (more than US$20,000 per student). [31] As of 2022, 89 percent of adults aged 25 to 64 have earned the equivalent of a high-school degree, compared to an OECD average of 75 percent. [28]
Joseph Priestley: The Rudiments of English Grammar:Adapted to the Use of Schools. 1762. Robert Lowth: A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes. [36] 1763. John Ash: Grammatical institutes: or, An easy introduction to Dr. Lowth's English grammar. [37] 1765. William Ward: An Essay on English Grammar. [38] 1766.
In 1797, lands in twelve townships (six east of York, and six west, totalling about 500,000 acres (200,000 ha), were set aside, from which revenues arising from their sale or lease were dedicated to support the establishment of grammar schools and a university for the Province. [42]
The grammar schools debate [1] is a debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the existence of grammar schools in the United Kingdom.Grammar schools are state schools which select their pupils on the basis of academic ability, with pupils sitting an exam (called the 11-plus) in the last year of primary school to determine whether or not they gain a place.