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Educational reform
EDUCATION REFORM overviewjacob e. adams jr. reports of historical significancerick ginsberg OVERVIEW In 1983 American education reform entered a new era. It was in that year that the federal government published a report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education entitled A Nation... Read more |
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Daniel Hudson Burnham
Daniel Hudson Burnham , 1846-1912, American architect and city planner b. Henderson, N.Y. He was trained in architects' offices in Chicago. In that city he established (1873) a partnership with John W. Root and soon gained many of the most important architectural commissions of the day. Their... Read more |
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Dictionary of National Biography
Dictionary of National Biography. The brainchild of the publisher George Smith. The work began in 1882 with Sir Leslie Stephen as editor and the last volume appeared in 1900. Supplements and updates have followed and Oxford University Press have commissioned a new edition. The original... Read more |
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Dawes Commission
Dawes Commission commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, created by the U.S. Congress in 1893 under the Dawes Act with H. L. Dawes as chairman. Its aim was the reorganization of the Indian Territory by securing the assent of the chiefs to the extinguishing of tribal land titles and by allotting... Read more |
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European Atomic Energy Commission
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Royal Commissions
Royal Commissions BIBLIOGRAPHY In Britain and in some of its former colonies such as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Royal Commissions of Inquiry have been an ad hoc, flexible, adaptive, and adaptable mode of inquiry established by centralized authority to investigate nominated issues.... Read more |
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United States Commission on Civil Rights
Commission on Civil Rights, United States ¦ JUDSON KNIGHT Established under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the United States Commission on Civil Rights serves in an investigative, fact-finding role with regard to allegations of discrimination or denial of equal protection... Read more |
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John Held Jr
HELD, JOHN, JR. 1889-1958 I LLUSTRATOR Illustrator of the Jazz Age The work of John Held Jr. so accurately delineated and parodied the new fashions of the 1920s that his illustrations became guides for the conduct and costume of flaming youth. He was the most popular and ... Read more |
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Gaston Lachaise
Gaston Lachaise , 1882-1935, American sculptor, b. Paris. After studying in Paris, he emigrated to the United States in 1906. For 12 years he worked in Boston and New York City, chiefly for the sculptors H. H. Kitson and Paul Manship , who employed him to execute details on some of their... Read more |
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