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William Thompson was one of the earliest investors in Buffett's partnerships. Thompson died in 1981, at age 86, and Thompson's daughter, Susan Buffett and her family donated the "William H. Thompson Scholars Learning Community" at the University of Nebraska (Omaha) in his honor. Notable Works by Thompson
Learning community. A learning community is a group of people who share common academic goals and attitudes and meet semi-regularly to collaborate on classwork. Such communities have become the template for a cohort-based, interdisciplinary approach to higher education. This may be based on an advanced kind of educational or 'pedagogical' design.
Coordinates: 35.956375°N 83.931653°W. The Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs is a nonpartisan institute on the campus of the University of Tennessee devoted to education and research concerning public policy and civic engagement. Through classes, public lectures, research, and student initiatives, the center aims to provide ...
William Thompson (1775 – 28 March 1833) was an Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer, developing from utilitarianism into an early critic of capitalist exploitation whose ideas influenced the cooperative, trade union and Chartist movements as well as Karl Marx . Born into the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy of wealthy landowners ...
William H. Thompson may refer to: William Hepworth Thompson (1810–1886), English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. William Henry Thompson (1853–1937), U.S. senator from Nebraska. William Howard Thompson (1871–1928), U.S. senator from Kansas. William Hale Thompson (1868–1944), mayor of Chicago.
William Francis Kynaston Thompson (1909–1980), British officer who fought and was captured at Arnhem. William Thompson (admiral) (1922–2018), American admiral, former chief of the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation. William Thompson (Medal of Honor, 1950) (1927–1950), Korean War recipient of the Medal of Honor.
The good language learner ( GLL) studies are a group of academic studies in the area of second language acquisition that deal with the strategies that good language learners exhibit. The rationale for the studies was that there is more benefit from studying the habits of successful language learners than there is from studying learners who ...
The Growing Participator Approach ( GPA) is an alternative paradigm for second language acquisition created by Greg Thomson. [1] In GPA, the goal is not language acquisition, but participation in the life of a new community, which is constantly growing over time. Thus, GPA uses the terminology of a 'growing participator' instead of a language ...