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	Boston Grammar School: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boston Grammar School is a selective school for boys aged 11 to 18, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The school was founded by charter of Philip Philip II of Spain quick summary:
		Barry spikings (born 23 november 1939, boston, lincolnshire) started as a cub reporter on the boston standard (boston, lincolnshire) and became a millionaire...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/boston_grammar_school.htm (507 words)

	GENUKI: Lincolnshire Schoolteachers and Headmasters
		Sarah, mistress at Parish School in Quadring in 1871.
		Martha, born 1829 in Navenby, school mistress in Navenby in 1861.
		SMEDLEY, Fanny, born 1837 in Stapleford, NTT, school mistress in Navenby in 1861.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/LIN/schoolteachers.html (11181 words)

	GENUKI: Boston, LIN
		The parish of Boston is surrounded by Skirbeck on the east and south, with Wyberton and Brothertoft to the west and Langriville and a portion of Sibsey to the north.
		Boston was chosen as the regional centre for the Boston Poor Law Union in 1834.
		The Free Grammar School was erected in 1567.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/LIN/Boston (2199 words)

	A Brief History of Boston, Lincolnshire, England
		There were 4 orders of friars in Boston, the Dominicans (known as fl friars because of the colour of their costumes), Franciscan or grey friars, Carmelites and (from the early 14th century) Austins or Augustines.
		Although Boston was really a market town there was some industry in the 19th century such as making farm implements and in the later 19th century a label making industry.
		In 1901 the population of Boston was 15,000.
	www.localhistories.org /boston.html (1348 words)

	History of Boston Latin School - The Oldest Public School in America
		Boston Latin School is the oldest public school in America with a continuous existence.
		Establishment of the school was due in great measure to the influence of the Reverend John Cotton, who sought to create in the New World a school like the Free Grammar School of Boston, England, in which Latin and Greek were taught.
		Campbell left to become an assistant superintendent of schools and in 1931, was elected Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, a position he held until his death in 1937.
	bls.org /cfml/l3tmpl_history.cfm (2307 words)

	BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - LoveToKnow Article on BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Benjamin could not remember when he did not know how to read, and when eight years old he was sent to the Boston grammar school, being destined by his father for the church as a tithe of his sons.
		He spent a year there and a year in a school for writing and arithmetic, and then at the age of ten he was taken from schoo to assist his father in the business of a tallow-chandler and soapboiler.
		Sparkss edition (io vols., Boston, 1836-1842; revised, Philadelphia, 1858) also contained fresh matter; and there are further additions in the edition of John Bigelow (Philadelphia, 1887-1888; 5th ed., f9o5) and in that by Albert Henry Smyth (10 vols., New York, f9051907).
	65.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FRANKLIN_BENJAMIN.htm (5969 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Education \| Grammar schools add most value
		For schools with 50 pupils or more, scores of 99.2 to 101 are "broadly average" - where there are 100 pupils or more, scores of 99.5 to 100.7 are broadly average.
		Skegness Grammar School in Skegness, Lincolnshire, led the table with a score of 104.2.
		"I feel that if grammar schools are well represented in the upper reaches of the value-added league tables it proves we are doing a good job, and not just because we have the advantage of a selective intake," he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/education/3327807.stm (388 words)

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		Although a school of this nature was thought of as a waste of time by many members of the community, the average school day still lasted about eight hours during the summer months and four hours during the winter months.
		The school year itself was very flexible as well, changing from two months of school annually to having classes six days a week year round, depending on the practicality for the community.
		Three hundred high schools were added by the time of the civil war and after a Michigan Supreme Court ruling in 1874 that the school districts must maintain a tax-supported public high school, the popularity of secondary education soared.
	www.nd.edu /~rbarger/www7/riseofhs.html (981 words)

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		It can be said that the modern public high school was born when the Michigan State Supreme Court ruled in 1874 that taxes could be levied to support public high schools as well as elementary schools.
		Students enrolling in the new high schools of the late 19th century were not necessarily being prepared for college.
		Schools continued to believe that students should be sorted among various tracks—academic, vocational and general—depending on their test scores and, more often, the judgment of guidance counselors as to their suitable destinies.
	www.ed.gov /about/offices/list/ovae/pi/hs/04summit/history.doc (2854 words)

	NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS - LoveToKnow Article on NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nathaniel Parker was the eldest son and second child of Nathaniel Willis, a newspaper proprietor in Boston, and was born in Portland, Maine, on the 20th of January 1806.
		After attending Boston grammar school and the academy at Andover, he entered Yale College in October 1823.
		Williamstown village is best known as the seat of Williams College, chartered in 1793 as a successor to a free school in Williamstown (chartered in 1785 and endowed by a bequest of Colonel Ephraim Williams).
	65.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WILLIS_NATHANIEL_PARKER.htm (538 words)

	Peter J. King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter John King was born in Boston, Lincolnshire.
		He attended St Mary's Catholic Primary School, then Boston Grammar School.
		After leaving school, he decided against his long-standing desire to go into the theatre, becoming involved instead in the poetry scene in London, centred on the National Poetry Society in Earls Court Square, and running his own small poetry-publishing company, tapocketa press.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_J._King (568 words)

	National School History Timeline
		Schools were mainly tied with the churches of a region especially in the Northeast.
		The main purpose of education was for young men to gain knowledge so that they could individually and collectively maintain their religious convictions.
		However in 1910 only 90% of the adult population had completed high school and the statutes setting minimum attendance requirements until age 14 in most states were often poorly enforced.
	www.grps.k12.mi.us /boe/history/nationaltimeline.html (427 words)

	Telegraph \| Education \| Head closes school to halt pupil protest over sacking
		A headmaster closed his foundation school yesterday to prevent a backlash by pupils who have been angered by the sacking of a popular and long-serving teacher.
		Richard Anderson, 57, was dismissed last month for throwing a school bag at an unruly pupil, but his students planned a mass demonstration to show their support for him.
		David Robinson, the council's school services manager, said: "Boston Grammar School is a foundation school and is not controlled by the local education authority.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /education/main.jhtml?xml=/education/2004/12/10/tenscho10.xml&sSheet=/education/2004/12/12/ixteleft.html (668 words)

	Archdiocese of Boston - 11/19/2004 - Gate of Heaven celebrates double anniversary
		Prior to the entrance procession of the Mass, a group of children in their school uniforms lined up in front of the sanctuary to sing “Standing On The Shoulders.” Music for the Mass was led by a guest choir from Holy Family Parish in Amesbury.
		That same year, the Sisters opened St. Agnes School in September with an enrollment of 375 girls, establishing a school that exists to this day and has provided a fine education to generations of Catholic youth in South Boston.
		The present school building was built in 1922 during the pastorate of Father George A. Lyons (1916-1932).
	www.rcab.org /Pilot/2004/ps041119/gateofheaven.html (652 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / War of the words: In class, grammar rears its ugly head
		For grammar advocates who for years have decried declining English standards, the renewed focus is long overdue.
		For years, schools have shunned formal grammar instruction for fear that enforcing rules would stifle students' creative expression and hurt their confidence, Walsh said.
		Educators came to see grammar as arbitrary and authoritarian and decided that students best learned the mechanics of writing not as a stand-alone subject, but by reading and writing.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/04/03/war_of_the_words_in_class_grammar_rears_its_ugly_head (514 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Benjamin Franklin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Benjamin Franklin was born on 6 January 1706 (17 January “new style”) in Boston, Massachusetts.
		At the age of eight he was sent to Boston Grammar School where he remained for less than a year.
		After spending a year under a private teacher, he started to work with his father at the age of ten and, from 1718 to 1723, become an apprentice to his brother James, who in August 1721 was the publisher of the New-England Courant.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4994 (674 words)

	About Boston and Skegness Constituency
		The constituency of Boston and Skegness is to be found on the east coast of Lincolnshire with Ingoldmells and Skegness at the northern tip and the small Port of Fosdyke at the southernmost point.
		The area's other principal town, that of Boston, is to be found to the south of the constituency and it too boasts its own windmill, The Maud Foster, which is the tallest five sail working mill in the country.
		No description of Boston would be complete without a mention of 'Boston Stump', the tallest parish church in the country, which dominates the flat landscape around it.
	www.marksimmondsmp.org /constituency.htm (851 words)

	NetSupport School 8: Testimonials & Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tanya Gleeson, Network Manager, The Joseph Whitaker School, UK "Having used Net Support School for over 5 years I have found it to be an invaluable support tool as well as an excellent teaching and classroom control aid.
		Teaching staff praise the ease with which Net Support School can be used to focus students on the subject matter of their lessons.
		Network Administers out there at school will also like it because it makes your job a bit easier, by giving some of the responsibility back on the teacher to look after the PC’s in there room allow you to do more useful jobs around the network.
	www.netsupportschool.com /testimonials_reviews.htm (1374 words)

	Unit I - The Rules of Latin
		For example, in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries, the Latin grammar school master, sometimes aided by an assistant called an usher, taught in a one-room schoolhouse, generally quite cold in the winter and without any of the comforts of the modern school building.
		Brinsley's description is of an imaginary dialogue between a grammar school master and one of his students.
		Grammar school students in early America registered many complaints about the drudgery of learning Latin grammar by the exacting process of rote memorization as practiced in the eighteenth century.
	www.holycross.edu /departments/classics/wziobro/Readings/UNITI.htm (3137 words)

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		Tower Road School is a Foundation Primary School The children are organised into year groups of mixed ability classes.
		At secondary school, GCSE exams may be taken by the children, and at 16, there is the opportunity to stay for higher education, either at the Secondary School, or at Boston College of Further Education.
		A booklet entitled 'Going to school in Lincolnshire' is available in school for all parents and is particularly helpful regarding procedures for the Secondary stage of your child's education.
	www.towerroadprimary.co.uk /prospectus?pid=57 (170 words)

	Amherst College Biographical Record: Class of 1862
		District Attorney, Boston, in office of George S. Hillard, 1869-71; director West End Street Railway Co., Boston; Metropolitan Steaamship Co.; member Boston School Bd., 1869, 1872; trustee Boston Public Library, 1871; Williston Sem., 1872; overseer Charity Fund A. C., 1877-; trustee Mass.
		School, 1864-67; surgeon interne, Boston City Hospital, 1866-67; practised Lonsdale, R. Representative R. State Legislature, 13 terms; senator 3 terms; governor of R. I., 2 terms.
		and Col., 1865; Columbia Law School, 1865-66; admitted to bar, N. City, O., 1866; managing clerk in office of Evarts, Southmayd and Choate, 1866-69; in firm of Tremain and Tyler, N. City, 1869-93; in firm of Tyler and Durand, 1893-1903; with sons William S. and Cornelius B., 1903-07; r.
	www.amherst.edu /~rjyanco/genealogy/acbiorecord/1862.html (4046 words)

	The Struggle for Public Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Massachusetts Bay School Law, which required every town to establish a public school supported by fees from all but the poorest families.
		In reality, however, many towns failed to establish schools, and many of those that existed were intended to produce an educated elite.
		The 1712 Curriculum of the Boston Latin Grammar School indicates what was taught by schoolmaster Nathaniel Williams at one of New England’s oldest and most prestigious schools.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gl/educ2.htm (276 words)

	The Friends of Franklin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On January 17th (new style calendar) Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest son in the family.
		BF attended Boston Grammar School and Brownell's English School.
		BF visited his parents in Boston and met the revered clergyman Cotton Mather.
	www.benfranklin2006.org /years.html (518 words)

	American Timeline: Colonization; Middle Colonies, Franklin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was born in Boston in January, 1706.
		He left grammar school in less than a year and went to Mr.
		Later when Ben found out the boat he was to take had already sailed, the gingerbread lady offered him a free stay at her house until the next boat left.
	www.fcps.k12.va.us /OakViewES/harris/97-98/america/colonization/colonies-middle/franklin.html (945 words)

	Say No To Selection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In other areas schools are grouped or stand alone and here eligible parents are those with children at feeder schools, defined as those which have sent a total of at least five pupils to the grammar school or schools in question over the last three years.
		By November 1996 when the requirement for grant maintained schools to obtain government approval for partial was dropped, roughly 60 schools had introduced partial selection.
		The School Standards and Framework Act introduced provisions which could mean every school which is an admission authority (ie foundation or voluntary school) could become partially selective by selecting 10% on "aptitude" if the governing body is satisfied the school has a specialism.
	www.casenet.org.uk /sayno/emid.html (359 words)

	NWilliams1712letter
		In 1712 Nathaniel Williams, master of the Boston Latin Grammar School, sent to Nehemiah Hobart, a Senior Fellow at Harvard, the following letter, in which he describes the curriculum pursued by the students at the Boston Latin Grammar School as they prepared for admission to Harvard College:
		The first three years are spent first in Learning by heart and then acc:[ording] to their capacities understanding the Accidence and Nomenclator, in construing and parsing acc:[ording) to the English rules of Syntax, Sententiae Pueriles, Cato and Corderius and Aesops Fables.
		Garretson's, English exercises for school-boys to translate into Latin, comprizing all the rules of grammar, and other necessary observations; ascending gradually from the meanest to higher capacities (London, 1683, 1687, 1690, 1698) was another favorite.
	personal.pitnet.net /primarysources/grammar.html (772 words)

	The Contemplator's Biography of Francis J. Child
		Child was born on February 1, 1825, the son of a Boston sail maker.
		Child's family was poor and he attended Boston Grammar School and the English High School, Boston's public schools.
		It was only through the generosity of Epes Sargent Dixwell, the principal of the Boston Latin School, who recognized Child's genius, that Child was able to enter Harvard.
	www.contemplator.com /history/childbio.html (765 words)

	OBA - Boston Grammar School - Staff - C
		The aim of this page is to profile the staff of Boston Grammar School, past and present.
		Before BGS - Educated Bishop Auckland Grammar School and at Rennes, France; BA(1933) MA(1938), London; Methodist Missionary in French West Africa (1934-1940); taught at Heath Grammar School, Halifax, Hammond's Grammar School, Swaffham, and Merchant Taylor's School, Crosby.
		Before BGS - Educated at Kirton School and Boston Grammar School (1921-1929) - Parry Gold Medal Winner(1929) - captain of football and cricket; BSc(1932), College of St Mark and St John, Chelsea; Second Master of St Thomas' Church of England School (1932-1950); RAF during WWII Flight Lieutenant (meteorological officer)
	www.bluepig.plus.com /BGS/Staff/C (537 words)

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