biography
| name: |
Hadow, Sir William Henry
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pronunciation:
[hadoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1859–1937)
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| biography:
| Scholar, educational administrator, and musicologist, born in Ebrington, Gloucestershire, SWC England, UK. He studied at Oxford, where he was successively scholar, lecturer, fellow, tutor, and dean (1889). He was Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University (1919–30), and as chairman of several committees published a series of reports on education, notably The Education of the Adolescent (1926) which called for the re-organization of elementary education, the abandonment of all-age schools, and the creation of secondary modern schools. He was a leading influence in English education at all levels in the 1920s and 1930s. |
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