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United States Department of Education
United States Department of Education executive department of the federal government responsible for advising on educational plans and policies, providing assistance for education, and carrying out educational research. It was established (1867) as an independent government agency and then transfer... Read more
National Defense Education Act
National Defense Education Act (NDEA), federal legislation passed in 1958 providing aid to education in the United States at all levels, public and private. NDEA was instituted primarily to stimulate the advancement of education in science, mathematics, and modern foreign languages; but it has also... Read more
adult education
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American University in Cairo
American University in Cairo at Cairo, Egypt; English language; founded 1919. It has faculties of anthropology, computer science, economics and political science, engineering, English and comparative literature, management, mass communication, psychology, science, and sociology. There is a large ad... Read more
University of Regina
University of Regina at Regina, Sask., Canada. Established in 1911 as a residential high school, it became a junior college at the Univ. of Saskatchewan in 1925, a second campus of that university in 1961, and an independent institution in 1974. It has faculties of arts, fine arts, education, engin... Read more
James Naismith
James Naismith , 1861-1939, American athletic director, inventor (1891) of basketball, b. Almonte, Ontario. While an instructor of physical education at the International YMCA Training School (now Springfield College) at Springfield, Mass., he originated basketball as a gymnasium sport. The game was... Read more
Constantijn Huygens
Constantijn Huygens , 1596-1687, Dutch humanist and poet, b. The Hague; father of Christiaan Huygens. He was broadly educated in languages, law, and social protocol to follow a public career. From 1625 he was secretary to the stadtholder, or the chief executive of the province of The Hague. Huygens ... Read more
Francis Turner Palgrave
Francis Turner Palgrave 1824-97, English poet and anthologist; oldest son of Sir Francis Palgrave. Educated at Oxford, where he began his lifelong friendship with Tennyson, he was an official in the government education department until he became professor of poetry (1885-95) at Oxford. He is remem... Read more
John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius , Czech Jan Amos Komenský, 1592-1670, Moravian churchman and educator, last bishop of the Moravian Church. Comenius advocated relating education to everyday life by emphasizing contact with objects in the environment and systematizing all knowledge. He did not regard reli... Read more
Walter Scott
Walter Scott 1867-1938, Canadian journalist and political leader, b. Ontario. A newspaper editor and publisher, he became (1900) a member of the House of Commons from Assiniboia West and was instrumental in securing the creation of the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta. An outstanding Liberal, ... Read more

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French Canadians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...the official Language of Quebec Province...status of the French language became...Provinces, French Canadian communities...Brunswick and Ontario they now have access to French-language...services, education, and radio...of France's involvement...
Canada
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...national office of education: all other...offices of education that coordinate...among Canada's systems of education, they have...followed by French, British...two official languages: English is...Brunswick, Ontario, and Manitoba...
QUEBEC
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...prominent indigenous languages. The first Europeans...America. Quebec French The French of Quebec descends...traditional standard of education and the media...international . Local French of all varieties...of the city's population was...anglophones in Ontario through ...
Ojibwa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...adjacent areas of Ontario; and the Southwestern...Wisconsin, and Ontario between Lake...are located in Ontario, Manitoba...The Ojibwa languages are classified in the Algonkian language family. History...of government education programs, urban...firearms from French traders, ...
Sir Charles Edward Saunders
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...in London, Ontario, on Feb. 2...received his early education in the elementary...his university education at the University...for Saunders's father had founded...the study of French, a subject...in the French language he was decorated by the French government and...the ...

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Confusing and conflicting agendas: Federalism, official languages and the development of the bilingualism in education program in Ontario, 1970-1983
Magazine article from: Journal of Canadian Studies; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...development of language policy under...province de l'Ontario. Au cours...programme s'eloignait...matiere d'education, Ottawa...anglophone de l'Ontario qu'a ceux...English and French and sing...official languages at hockey...official language, and have...enrolling in ...
Adjusting the scale of values: the Modern Language Association of Ontario, 1886-1919.(Organization overview)
Magazine article from: English Studies in Canada; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...twentieth-century's turn (Radway...catalogue the MLAO's role as a clearinghouse...of the Modern Language Association of Ontario, to 1919: A...The group's dogged lobbying...the provincial education ministry and the...developments in modern languages scholarship and...historians ...
"Naturally I am passionate, ill-tempered, and arrogant ...": Father Matthew J. Whelan and French-English conflict in Ontario, 1881-1922.
Magazine article from: Historical Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Ontario. The language of instruction...limited the use of French. This paper examines...anglophone priests in Ontario, whose volatile...St. Patrick's Church in Ottawa...catholique en Ontario. La question...Conflict between French and English over...French ...
Model program: technological education in Ontario schools: the philosophy that underlies the teaching of broad-based technology is that students learn best by doing, with an emphasis on problem solving.
Magazine article from: The Technology Teacher; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Students in Ontario have an entitlement to education in either of Canada's two official languages, English and French. There are English-language and French...school boards. Ontario employs 114...secondary. Education funding is...
Official-language minority and aboriginal first-language education: implications of Norway's Sami Language Act for Canada
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Education; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Language Education: Implications of Norway's Sami Language...David Corson ontario institute for studies in education Norway has...official - language status to the languages of its aboriginal...English and French, the languages...reforming education ...
Statement From the Commissioner of Official Languages-Reform of French Second Language Programs in New Brunswick
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 3/14/2008; 496 words ; OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire...Commissioner of Official Languages, Graham Fraser...Brunswick Minister of Education Kelly Lamrock...programs to teach French as a second language. I am impressed by Mr. Lamrock's determination...opportunity to master French. A mandatory...s ...
Ontario Encourages Entrepreneurship Among Young Francophones.
News Wire article from: CNW Group; 4/14/2009; 700+ words ; ...ontario.ca/francophone...Along with the Ontario Trillium Foundation...government's strategy through...College Boreal is a French-language institution of...Southwestern Ontario. College Boreal is the first education sector representative...
Ontario Mobilizes Francophone Youth.
News Wire article from: CNW Group; 12/18/2008; 700+ words ; ...read the Ministry of Education's Amenagement linguistique...linguistique.html) policy (language planning policy), which promotes French-language education in Ontario...Chanzy, Minister's Office, (416) 325...
Arel and TV Ontario Enter into an Agreement for the Deployment of Arel's Interactive Distance Learning System - IDEAL - in the Canadian Market.
Business Wire; 10/7/1997; 700+ words ; ...areas -- Distance Education and IP Telephony...Ben Nun Arel's CEO. The IDEAL...Interactive Distance and Education Learning) system...terrestrial. TV Ontario, Ontario's provincial broadcaster...the English-language TVO, and the French-language TFO...
Difference and diversity in Ontario schooling
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Education; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...religion and language but also to adopt "superior French culture" (Ashworth...submersion in European languages, customs, and...maintain the French language and culture in Ontario's public schools...of the public education system, suggested...