Many of the scholarships you find will be very specific, only for students from a particular background, geographic area, or profession, like the Nadeen Burkeholder Williams Music Scholarship, which is for a K-12 teacher pursuing a graduate degree who either teaches music or uses music as a method of teaching another subject.

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In 1920, HBS innovated the case method of research and teaching where students literally sink or swim entirely on the basis of their ability to persuade peers that their analysis and recommended course of action is the right one for the company in question.

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Contained in the proposals are powers for either a council or a Minister to issue statutory guidance to a school where they feel that their method of teaching - say, reading - is not consistent with best practice and cannot be shown to be delivering appreciable results.

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