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An 1888 cabinet card of Sarah Porter, the founder of Miss Porter's School. Miss Porter's School was established in 1843 by education reformer Sarah Porter. [3] She was insistent that the school's curriculum include chemistry, physiology, botany, geology, and astronomy in addition to the more traditional subjects taught in girls' schools.
Farmington: Public Associates college: 4,567 [6] 1969 [21] United States Coast Guard Academy: New London: Public : Baccalaureate college: 1,058 1876 University of Bridgeport: Bridgeport: Private Doctoral university: 3,988 1927 University of Connecticut: Storrs: Public Doctoral university: 32,096 [22] 1881 University of Hartford: West Hartford ...
The Adult College was an adult education college located in the centre of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. The college was established in 1975, and moved to a site on Quarry Road overlooking the Lancaster Canal in 1990. [ 1 ]
Connecticut Education Association: Farmington Public Schools is a school district headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut, United States. Schools
Exemplary situation – a workshop, the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) Annual Conference in Wellington, New Zealand in 2012. Adult education, distinct from child education, is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained educating activities in order to gain new knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values. [1]
The term Farmington Valley, as used in the local vernacular, refers primarily to the towns of Farmington, Avon, Simsbury, Canton and Granby. However, when defined by the course of the Farmington River, or by its entire watershed, the term can refer to large areas of land across the north central portion of Connecticut and into southern ...
Dougherty, Jack. "Shopping for schools: How public education and private housing shaped suburban Connecticut." Journal of Urban History 38.2 (2012): 205–224. online "EDUCATION IN CONNECTICUT" Journal of Education 100#12 (Oct 1924), pp. 313–321 online summarizes education department of state governments and its many divisions and activities ...
Lancashire Adult Learning is an adult education college located in Lancashire, England. Courses offered by the college are aimed primarily at adult learners rather than recent school leavers, and include short courses, weekly courses, ESOL programmes and Functional Skills.