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Scholasticism. Scholasticism was a medieval school of philosophy that employed a critical organic method of philosophical analysis predicated upon the Aristotelian 10 Categories. Christian scholasticism emerged within the monastic schools that translated scholastic Judeo-Islamic philosophies, and "rediscovered" the collected works of Aristotle.
Scholastic Corporation is an American multinational publishing, education, and media company that publishes and distributes books, comics, and educational materials for schools, teachers, parents, children, and other educational institutions. Products are distributed via retail and online sales and through schools via reading clubs and book fairs.
Orin Knight Hargraves was born on September 14, 1953, in Denver, Colorado. He spent most of his childhood in Creede, Colorado, and graduated with honors from the University of Chicago in 1977, concentrating in philosophy, language and literature. He served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Morocco where he taught English in a government lycée.
Comparison of English dictionaries. This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English. The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other ...
IC – Jesus (first and third letters of His name in Greek) Id. – Idus ("Ides") Igr. – Igitur ("Therefore") IHS – Jesus (a faulty Latin transliteration of the first three letters of *JESUS in Greek (ΙΗΣ); sometimes misinterpreted as Iesus Hominum Salvator "Jesus Saviour of Men". Ind. – Indictio ("Indiction")
The Wechsler Individual Achievement Test Second Edition (WIAT-II; Wechsler, 2005) assesses the academic achievement of children, adolescents, college students and adults, aged 4 through 85. The test enables the assessment of a broad range of academics skills or only a particular area of need. The WIAT-II is a revision of the original WIAT ( The ...
Quiz bowl ( quizbowl, [1] scholars' bowl, scholastic bowl, academic bowl, academic team, academic challenge, etc.) is a family of quiz -based competitions that test players on a wide variety of academic subjects. Standardized quiz bowl formats are played by primary school, middle school, high school, and university students throughout North ...
The World Book Dictionary is a two-volume English dictionary published as a supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia.It was originally published in 1963 under the editorship of Clarence Barnhart, who wrote definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children, based on the educational works of Edward Thorndike whom Clarence Barnhart had known and worked with decades before.