Emberizidae
Emberizidae (buntings, finches, long-spurs, sparrows; class Aves, order Passeriformes) A family of small, mainly brown, streaked birds with medium-length feet, longish tails, and short conical bills. They inhabit open areas, grassland, and woodland, feeding mainly on seeds and building either an open or dome-shaped nest in trees, bushes, or on the ground.
Emberiza striolata (house bunting) prefers to occupy buildings. The colourful plumage of the six species of
Passerina makes them popular cage birds. There are about 70 genera in the family, with about 280 species, found in N., Central, and S. America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
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Morality and public schools: The spector of William Torrey Harris
Magazine article from: Educational Foundations; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...pupil into habits of prompt obedience to his teachers and the practice of self-control in its various forms. -William Torrey Harris, 1874, 13 An assumption throughout American history has been that during times of perceived national crises...
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13 Harris and his anachronistic attack.(Part III: nineteenth-century Americas critics)
Magazine article from: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; William Torrey Harris (1835-1909) is best known as an American...idealism. Yet, on several occasions, Harris took time from these activities to offer...George's other works were discussed.) Harris believed that his basic arguments against...
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Introduction: From the editor
Magazine article from: Educational Foundations; 10/1/1999; ; 577 words
; ...Public Schools: The Specter of William Torrey Harris," Douglas McKnight explores...documents the position carved out by Harris in the moral domain, as he notes...ideas expressed in this issue. -William T. Pink, Editor
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Let's eliminate the eighth grade!(Essay)
Magazine article from: Education; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...reform, Charles W. Eliot and William Torrey Harris, whom she characterizes as the...is called) tracking, Eliot and Harris seem wildly out of touch but...wake of the Eliot-chaired (with Harris as worker bee) Committee of Ten...
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Why do we teach art today?
Magazine article from: Studies in Art Education; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...like Charles Callahan Perkins, William Torrey Harris, and John Dewey were successful...perpetuating class distinctions. Later, Harris's view of art as moral training...and conflicts between Perkins, Harris, and Dewey on the specific value...
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Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms.(Review)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...schools academic. They include scholars such as William Torrey Harris, W. E. B. Du Bois, William Chandler Bagley, Isaac L. Kandel, Charles...leaders who bucked the mainstream of reform. William Henry Maxwell, the superintendent of New...
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Forgotten heroes of American education; the great tradition of teaching teachers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2006; 539 words
; ...philosophies of Aristotle. Teachers William C. Bagley, Charles DeGarmo, David Felmley, William Torrey Harris, Isaac Leon Kandel, Charles Alexander McMurry, William D. Ruediger, Edward Austin Sheldon...
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G. Stanley Hall, child study, and the teaching of geography
Magazine article from: The Journal of Geography; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...debates included U.S. Commissioner of Education William Torrey Harris, Harvard's President Charles W. Eliot, university professors John Dewey, William Morris Davis, and Nicholas Murray Butler, and teacher...
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BEING MINDFUL OF BETTER TEACHING.(PERSPECTIVE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/25/2004; 700+ words
; ...defined and organized by curricula and textbooks, led by William Torrey Harris, U.S. commissioner of education. In this view...literature, the ``five windows of the soul,'' as Harris called them -- rescued the young mind from its immediate...
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Olympic education: fundamentals, success and failures.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Proceedings: International Symposium for Olympic Research; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the 1870s. (4) The new educational Zeitgeist was mainly influenced by academics such as William Torrey Harris, Stanley Hall, John Dewey, and William Kilpatrick, whose writings had a big impact on European educators. (5) In France, one...
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William Torrey Harris
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
William Torrey Harris William Torrey Harris (1835-1909) was a dominant influence in American education through his writings and by his own example as a school administrator. William T. Harris was born in North Killingly, Conn., on Sept...
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Harris, William Torrey (1835-1909)
Book article from: American Eras
William Torrey Harris (1835-1909) U.s. commissioner of education Source Advocate of Universal Education. The educator William Torrey Harris was graduated from Yale in 1855 and began teaching in Saint Louis...
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Harris, William Torrey
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Harris, William Torrey (1835–1909), philosopher and educator, founded the St. Louis school of Idealism, which initiated the systematic...
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Harris, William T. (1835–1909)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education
HARRIS, WILLIAM T. (1835 – 1909) An important...statesman of the late nineteenth century, William Torrey Harris served as the chief administrator of...studied the German philosopher Georg William Friedrich Hegel, a community that would...
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Harris, William T. (1835-1909)
Book article from: American Eras
William T. Harris (1835-1909) Sources Educational philosopher, administrator...Barnard or Horace Mann, historian Lawrence Cremin has described William Torrey Harris as “the commanding figure of his pedagogical era...
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