The Avery Coonley School is an independent school serving academically
gifted students in Downers Grove, Illinois, U.S. Avery Coonley was
founded in 1906 to promote the progressive educational theories
developed by John Dewey and other turn of the 20th century
philosophers, and was a nationally recognized model for progressive
education well into the 1940s. From 1943 to 1965, Avery Coonley was
part of the National College of Education serving as a living
laboratory for teacher training and educational research. It became a
regional research center in the late 1960s and a school for the gifted
in the early 1970s. The campus, designed in the Prairie and Arts and
Crafts styles, was landscaped by Jens Jensen, who was known as "dean of
the world's landscape architects." Avery Coonley was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 2007, citing the "long-lasting
influence on schools throughout the country" of the educational program
and the design of the building and grounds.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1606:
A royal decree established the Union Flag to symbolise the Union of
the Crowns, merging the designs of the Flag of England and the Flag of
Scotland.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Flag>
1861:
Confederate forces began firing at Fort Sumter in the harbor of
Charleston, South Carolina, starting the American Civil War.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter>
1927:
Chinese Civil War: A large-scale purge of communists from the
nationalist Kuomintang began in Shanghai.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_massacre_of_1927>
1961:
Aboard Vostok 3KA-2, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man
to enter outer space, completing one orbit in a time of 108 minutes.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin>
1980:
Terry Fox dipped his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean at St.
John's, Newfoundland, and began running his "Marathon of Hope" towards
the Pacific Ocean at Vancouver, British Columbia, to raise funds across
Canada for cancer research.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
moratorium (n):
1. An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of
payments.
2. A suspension of an ongoing activity
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moratorium>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
He that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever
shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself
shall be exalted.
--Jesus
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