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- ...that the Walter Byers Scholarship is considered the highest academic honor for National Collegiate Athletic Association athletes?
- ...that although the UK government committed itself ten years ago to removing partial selection from schools, there are still a substantial number of partially selective schools in England?
- ...that Julian Rotter developed the locus of control theory, which has been widely used in the psychology of personality?
- ...that the Socratic method (or method of elenchos or Socratic debate) is a dialectic method of inquiry, largely applied to the examination of key moral concepts and first described by Plato in the Socratic Dialogues?
- ...that Colorado state representative Amy Stephens wrote an abstinence-based sex education curriculum that was translated into over a dozen languages?