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(Encyclopedia)graveyard school, 18th-century school of English poets who wrote primarily about human mortality. Often set in a graveyard, their poems mused on the vicissitudes of life, the solitude of death and the...library school
(Encyclopedia)library school, educational institution providing professional training for librarians (see also library). Librarians were trained by apprenticeship until the late 19th cent. The first school for trai...Latin Empire of Constantinople
(Encyclopedia)Latin Empire of Constantinople: see Constantinople, Latin Empire of. ...Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
(Encyclopedia)Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: see Jerusalem, Latin Kingdom of. ...opportunity school
(Encyclopedia)opportunity school: see illiteracy. ...night school
(Encyclopedia)night school: see vocational education. ...normal school
(Encyclopedia)normal school: see teacher training. ...ashcan school
(Encyclopedia)ashcan school: see Eight, the.continuation school
(Encyclopedia)continuation school: see vocational education. ...progressive school
(Encyclopedia)progressive school: see progressive education. ...Browse by Subject
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