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Jake Toyer, 23, is a football coaching and analysis MSc student at Bucks New University Toyer says his MSc in coaching teaches skills that are transferable to any leadership situation. Toyer says his MSc in coaching teaches skills that are transferable to any leadership situation.
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âIâm one of eight students on the first coaching and analysis course to be fully based at Wembley. As an ardent football fan and part-time youth coach, with a BA in community development, itâs been amazing to learn about the game at the home of English football.
Before the Civil War none of the states south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers had public school systems. In the 1780s and 1810s the former governor Thomas Jefferson recommended creating a statewide school system, and the governors David Campbell and James McDowell made similar recommendations in the 1830s and 1840s. But the Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830 refused even to debate a proposal that the state take responsibility to educate its children. White Virginians who could afford it hired tutors or sent their children to private schools. By the middle of the nineteenth century numerous academies for both boys and girls operated throughout Virginia, and some Presbyterian, Catholic, and Episcopal churches sponsored schools. The General Assembly did little more than authorize counties to establish schools for educating paupers. That system, some Virginians complained to the assembly in the mid-1850s, “has been a failure. It has failed to enlist public confidence, because it h
Today restored to museum quality and lovingly cared for by a U.S. Navy crew, the USS
Constitution, “Old Ironsides,” is the living symbol of America’s first generation of warships, built in response to external threats that a young United States would have preferred to ignore. It would, however, be foolish to presume that her fame and success came from divine intervention and manifest destiny. The fine fighting and sailing qualities of the
Constitution and her sister ships were more than just providence shining on a new nation with promise. On the contrary, much of the legend that became “Old Ironsides” was designed into her, long before the first timbers were cut and shaped.
Published: Thursday, February 4, 2021
U.S. Representative Deb Haaland (D-NM). Photo credit:
Brian Snyder/Reuters/Newscom
Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) at the Capitol on Jan. 3, 2019, after she became one of the first two Native American women in the House. She now could become the first Native American to serve as Interior secretary. Brian Snyder/Reuters/Newscom
With Democratic New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland poised to become the first Native American Interior secretary, tribal governments historically marginalized by the agency expect not only a greater respect for their autonomy, but also a more significant role in the nation s land and water management decisions.