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Education
The conventional merit-system degree is currently not as common in open education as it is in campus universities, although some open universities do already offer conventional degrees such as the Open University in the United Kingdom. Presently, many of the major open education sources offer their own form of certific...
Which University offers conventional degrees?
{ "text": [ "Open University in the United Kingdom" ], "answer_start": [ 197 ] }
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Education
The conventional merit-system degree is currently not as common in open education as it is in campus universities, although some open universities do already offer conventional degrees such as the Open University in the United Kingdom. Presently, many of the major open education sources offer their own form of certific...
What do most open education sources offer?
{ "text": [ "own form of certificate" ], "answer_start": [ 300 ] }
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Education
Universal Primary Education is one of the eight international Millennium Development Goals, towards which progress has been made in the past decade, though barriers still remain. Securing charitable funding from prospective donors is one particularly persistent problem. Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute...
What does Universal Primary Education belong to?
{ "text": [ "international Millennium Development Goals" ], "answer_start": [ 48 ] }
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Education
Universal Primary Education is one of the eight international Millennium Development Goals, towards which progress has been made in the past decade, though barriers still remain. Securing charitable funding from prospective donors is one particularly persistent problem. Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute...
What is one issue that hurts Universal Primary Education?
{ "text": [ "charitable funding" ], "answer_start": [ 188 ] }
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Education
Universal Primary Education is one of the eight international Millennium Development Goals, towards which progress has been made in the past decade, though barriers still remain. Securing charitable funding from prospective donors is one particularly persistent problem. Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute...
Which organization has discovered corruption in the educator sector?
{ "text": [ "Transparency International" ], "answer_start": [ 518 ] }
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Education
Similarities — in systems or even in ideas — that schools share internationally have led to an increase in international student exchanges. The European Socrates-Erasmus Program facilitates exchanges across European universities. The Soros Foundation provides many opportunities for students from central Asia and easter...
What has come from similarities in systems?
{ "text": [ "increase in international student exchanges" ], "answer_start": [ 95 ] }
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Education
Similarities — in systems or even in ideas — that schools share internationally have led to an increase in international student exchanges. The European Socrates-Erasmus Program facilitates exchanges across European universities. The Soros Foundation provides many opportunities for students from central Asia and easter...
Which programfacilitates the exchange students across Europe?
{ "text": [ "The European Socrates-Erasmus Program" ], "answer_start": [ 140 ] }
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Education
Similarities — in systems or even in ideas — that schools share internationally have led to an increase in international student exchanges. The European Socrates-Erasmus Program facilitates exchanges across European universities. The Soros Foundation provides many opportunities for students from central Asia and easter...
Which group provides opportunities for Eastern Europe and Asia exchange students?
{ "text": [ "The Soros Foundation" ], "answer_start": [ 230 ] }
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Education
Research into LCPS (low cost private schools) found that over 5 years to July 2013, debate around LCPSs to achieving Education for All (EFA) objectives was polarised and finding growing coverage in international policy. The polarisation was due to disputes around whether the schools are affordable for the poor, reach d...
What does LCPS stand for?
{ "text": [ "low cost private schools" ], "answer_start": [ 20 ] }
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Education
Research into LCPS (low cost private schools) found that over 5 years to July 2013, debate around LCPSs to achieving Education for All (EFA) objectives was polarised and finding growing coverage in international policy. The polarisation was due to disputes around whether the schools are affordable for the poor, reach d...
What was the reason for the polarisation for affordable schooling?
{ "text": [ "disputes around whether the schools are affordable for the poor" ], "answer_start": [ 248 ] }
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Education
Research into LCPS (low cost private schools) found that over 5 years to July 2013, debate around LCPSs to achieving Education for All (EFA) objectives was polarised and finding growing coverage in international policy. The polarisation was due to disputes around whether the schools are affordable for the poor, reach d...
Where are these types of school spreading across?
{ "text": [ "Africa and Asia" ], "answer_start": [ 594 ] }
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Education
Some claim that there is education inequality because children did not exceed the education of their parents. This education inequality is then associated with income inequality. Although critical thinking is a goal of education, criticism and blame are often the unintended by products of our current educational proces...
What are some of the claims being pointed towards education inequality?
{ "text": [ "children did not exceed the education of their parents" ], "answer_start": [ 54 ] }
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Education
Some claim that there is education inequality because children did not exceed the education of their parents. This education inequality is then associated with income inequality. Although critical thinking is a goal of education, criticism and blame are often the unintended by products of our current educational proces...
Who do students often blame for their education short comings?
{ "text": [ "teachers and their textbooks" ], "answer_start": [ 350 ] }
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Education
Developed countries have people with more resources (housing, food, transportation, water and sewage treatment, hospitals, health care, libraries, books, media, schools, the internet, education, etc.) than most of the world's population. One merely needs to see through travel or the media how many people in the undevel...
What is the discrepancy between Developed and less developed countries?
{ "text": [ "Developed countries have people with more resources" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
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Education
Developed countries have people with more resources (housing, food, transportation, water and sewage treatment, hospitals, health care, libraries, books, media, schools, the internet, education, etc.) than most of the world's population. One merely needs to see through travel or the media how many people in the undevel...
What resources do developed countries have better access to?
{ "text": [ "housing, food, transportation" ], "answer_start": [ 53 ] }
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Education
Developed countries have people with more resources (housing, food, transportation, water and sewage treatment, hospitals, health care, libraries, books, media, schools, the internet, education, etc.) than most of the world's population. One merely needs to see through travel or the media how many people in the undevel...
What is common in developed countries?
{ "text": [ "criticism and blame" ], "answer_start": [ 431 ] }
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Education
Gratitude for all these resources and the determination to develop oneself would be more productive than criticism and blame because the resources are readily available and because, if you blame others, there is no need for you to do something different tomorrow or for you to change and improve. Where there is a will, ...
What is one good trait about students from developed countries?
{ "text": [ "have the will and the way to do many things" ], "answer_start": [ 366 ] }
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Education
Gratitude for all these resources and the determination to develop oneself would be more productive than criticism and blame because the resources are readily available and because, if you blame others, there is no need for you to do something different tomorrow or for you to change and improve. Where there is a will, ...
What use of technology can greatly supplement how teachers teach in the classroom?
{ "text": [ "internet" ], "answer_start": [ 691 ] }
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Education
Gratitude for all these resources and the determination to develop oneself would be more productive than criticism and blame because the resources are readily available and because, if you blame others, there is no need for you to do something different tomorrow or for you to change and improve. Where there is a will, ...
What do students also need occasionally before putting blame on teachers?
{ "text": [ "gratitude for the resources they have" ], "answer_start": [ 595 ] }
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Education
Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Although the terms "educational psychology" and "school psychology" are often used interchangeably, research...
What is the meaning of Education psychology?
{ "text": [ "the study of how humans learn in educational settings" ], "answer_start": [ 26 ] }
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Education
Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Although the terms "educational psychology" and "school psychology" are often used interchangeably, research...
What is also used interchangeably with Education psychology?
{ "text": [ "school psychology" ], "answer_start": [ 261 ] }
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Education
Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Although the terms "educational psychology" and "school psychology" are often used interchangeably, research...
Who are likely to be identified as educational psychologist?
{ "text": [ "researchers and theorists" ], "answer_start": [ 312 ] }
572bba49111d821400f38f5d
Education
Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Although the terms "educational psychology" and "school psychology" are often used interchangeably, research...
What is educational psychology concerned with?
{ "text": [ "the processes of educational attainment" ], "answer_start": [ 537 ] }
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Education
Educational psychology can in part be understood through its relationship with other disciplines. It is informed primarily by psychology, bearing a relationship to that discipline analogous to the relationship between medicine and biology. Educational psychology in turn informs a wide range of specialties within educat...
How can Educational psychology in part be understood?
{ "text": [ "through its relationship with other disciplines" ], "answer_start": [ 49 ] }
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Education
Educational psychology can in part be understood through its relationship with other disciplines. It is informed primarily by psychology, bearing a relationship to that discipline analogous to the relationship between medicine and biology. Educational psychology in turn informs a wide range of specialties within educat...
How is the method of educational psychology have some relation to medicine and biology?
{ "text": [ "discipline analogous" ], "answer_start": [ 169 ] }
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Education
Educational psychology can in part be understood through its relationship with other disciplines. It is informed primarily by psychology, bearing a relationship to that discipline analogous to the relationship between medicine and biology. Educational psychology in turn informs a wide range of specialties within educat...
Where does education psychology draw from?
{ "text": [ "contributes to cognitive science and the learning sciences" ], "answer_start": [ 527 ] }
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Education
Educational psychology can in part be understood through its relationship with other disciplines. It is informed primarily by psychology, bearing a relationship to that discipline analogous to the relationship between medicine and biology. Educational psychology in turn informs a wide range of specialties within educat...
In universities where are the departments of educational psychology normally held?
{ "text": [ "faculties of education" ], "answer_start": [ 668 ] }
572bbcad34ae481900deaef1
Education
Intelligence is an important factor in how the individual responds to education. Those who have higher intelligence tend to perform better at school and go on to higher levels of education. This effect is also observable in the opposite direction, in that education increases measurable intelligence. Studies have shown ...
What is important for a student in education?
{ "text": [ "Intelligence" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
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Education
Intelligence is an important factor in how the individual responds to education. Those who have higher intelligence tend to perform better at school and go on to higher levels of education. This effect is also observable in the opposite direction, in that education increases measurable intelligence. Studies have shown ...
What does education increase in a student?
{ "text": [ "measurable intelligence" ], "answer_start": [ 276 ] }
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Education
Intelligence is an important factor in how the individual responds to education. Those who have higher intelligence tend to perform better at school and go on to higher levels of education. This effect is also observable in the opposite direction, in that education increases measurable intelligence. Studies have shown ...
What is intelligence at 53 more closely related to?
{ "text": [ "intelligence at 8" ], "answer_start": [ 458 ] }
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Education
Dunn and Dunn focused on identifying relevant stimuli that may influence learning and manipulating the school environment, at about the same time as Joseph Renzulli recommended varying teaching strategies. Howard Gardner identified a wide range of modalities in his Multiple Intelligences theories. The Myers-Briggs Type...
Who focused on identifying stimuli that can influence learning?
{ "text": [ "Dunn" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
572bbdc7f75d5e190021febb
Education
Dunn and Dunn focused on identifying relevant stimuli that may influence learning and manipulating the school environment, at about the same time as Joseph Renzulli recommended varying teaching strategies. Howard Gardner identified a wide range of modalities in his Multiple Intelligences theories. The Myers-Briggs Type...
Who also along with Dunn recommended other teaching studies?
{ "text": [ "Joseph Renzulli" ], "answer_start": [ 149 ] }
572bbdc7f75d5e190021febc
Education
Dunn and Dunn focused on identifying relevant stimuli that may influence learning and manipulating the school environment, at about the same time as Joseph Renzulli recommended varying teaching strategies. Howard Gardner identified a wide range of modalities in his Multiple Intelligences theories. The Myers-Briggs Type...
Who created the Type Delineator?
{ "text": [ "David Kolb and Anthony Gregorc's" ], "answer_start": [ 589 ] }
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Education
Some theories propose that all individuals benefit from a variety of learning modalities, while others suggest that individuals may have preferred learning styles, learning more easily through visual or kinesthetic experiences. A consequence of the latter theory is that effective teaching should present a variety of te...
What do some theories believe?
{ "text": [ "that all individuals benefit from a variety of learning modalities" ], "answer_start": [ 22 ] }
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Education
Some theories propose that all individuals benefit from a variety of learning modalities, while others suggest that individuals may have preferred learning styles, learning more easily through visual or kinesthetic experiences. A consequence of the latter theory is that effective teaching should present a variety of te...
What should be included in effective teaching?
{ "text": [ "teaching methods which cover all three learning modalities" ], "answer_start": [ 318 ] }
572bc0c3111d821400f38f71
Education
As an academic field, philosophy of education is "the philosophical study of education and its problems (...) its central subject matter is education, and its methods are those of philosophy". "The philosophy of education may be either the philosophy of the process of education or the philosophy of the discipline of ed...
What defines Philosophy education?
{ "text": [ "the philosophical study of education and its problems" ], "answer_start": [ 50 ] }
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Education
As an academic field, philosophy of education is "the philosophical study of education and its problems (...) its central subject matter is education, and its methods are those of philosophy". "The philosophy of education may be either the philosophy of the process of education or the philosophy of the discipline of ed...
What fields make up field education and a field applied philosophy?
{ "text": [ "metaphysics, epistemology, axiology and the philosophical approaches" ], "answer_start": [ 720 ] }
572bc15c34ae481900deaef7
Education
Instruction is the facilitation of another's learning. Instructors in primary and secondary institutions are often called teachers, and they direct the education of students and might draw on many subjects like reading, writing, mathematics, science and history. Instructors in post-secondary institutions might be calle...
What is another term used for instructors?
{ "text": [ "teachers" ], "answer_start": [ 122 ] }
572bc15c34ae481900deaef8
Education
Instruction is the facilitation of another's learning. Instructors in primary and secondary institutions are often called teachers, and they direct the education of students and might draw on many subjects like reading, writing, mathematics, science and history. Instructors in post-secondary institutions might be calle...
What are the main subjects that are covered by the instructor?
{ "text": [ "reading, writing, mathematics, science and history" ], "answer_start": [ 211 ] }
572bc15c34ae481900deaef9
Education
Instruction is the facilitation of another's learning. Instructors in primary and secondary institutions are often called teachers, and they direct the education of students and might draw on many subjects like reading, writing, mathematics, science and history. Instructors in post-secondary institutions might be calle...
In the United States what is considered the single most important factor in a child's education?
{ "text": [ "quality of teachers" ], "answer_start": [ 503 ] }
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Education
It has been argued that high rates of education are essential for countries to be able to achieve high levels of economic growth. Empirical analyses tend to support the theoretical prediction that poor countries should grow faster than rich countries because they can adopt cutting edge technologies already tried and te...
What is the theory behind Empirical analyses?
{ "text": [ "poor countries should grow faster than rich countries" ], "answer_start": [ 197 ] }
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Education
It has been argued that high rates of education are essential for countries to be able to achieve high levels of economic growth. Empirical analyses tend to support the theoretical prediction that poor countries should grow faster than rich countries because they can adopt cutting edge technologies already tried and te...
What is greatly needed with technology transfer when it relates to education?
{ "text": [ "requires knowledgeable managers and engineers" ], "answer_start": [ 373 ] }
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Education
At the level of the individual, there is a large literature, generally related to the work of Jacob Mincer, on how earnings are related to the schooling and other human capital. This work has motivated a large number of studies, but is also controversial. The chief controversies revolve around how to interpret the impa...
Literature on how earnings and how it relates to schooling was greatly influenced by who?
{ "text": [ "Jacob Mincer" ], "answer_start": [ 94 ] }
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Education
At the level of the individual, there is a large literature, generally related to the work of Jacob Mincer, on how earnings are related to the schooling and other human capital. This work has motivated a large number of studies, but is also controversial. The chief controversies revolve around how to interpret the impa...
This view of how schooling and earnings has sparked a lot of studies, but what else has it brought up?
{ "text": [ "is also controversial" ], "answer_start": [ 233 ] }
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Education
At the level of the individual, there is a large literature, generally related to the work of Jacob Mincer, on how earnings are related to the schooling and other human capital. This work has motivated a large number of studies, but is also controversial. The chief controversies revolve around how to interpret the impa...
What was one of the main concerns of this literature on how schooling and earnings?
{ "text": [ "not achieve their full academic potential, due to financial difficulties" ], "answer_start": [ 451 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee (i/tɛnᵻˈsiː/) (Cherokee: ᏔᎾᏏ, Tanasi) is a state located in the southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south,...
Which state borders Tennessee to the east?
{ "text": [ "North Carolina" ], "answer_start": [ 245 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee (i/tɛnᵻˈsiː/) (Cherokee: ᏔᎾᏏ, Tanasi) is a state located in the southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south,...
Which mountains occupy much of eastern Tennessee?
{ "text": [ "Appalachian Mountains" ], "answer_start": [ 364 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee (i/tɛnᵻˈsiː/) (Cherokee: ᏔᎾᏏ, Tanasi) is a state located in the southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south,...
Which river marks Tennessee's border to the west?
{ "text": [ "Mississippi River" ], "answer_start": [ 434 ] }
572bcfb734ae481900deaf0e
Tennessee
Tennessee (i/tɛnᵻˈsiː/) (Cherokee: ᏔᎾᏏ, Tanasi) is a state located in the southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south,...
What is the capital of Tennessee?
{ "text": [ "Nashville" ], "answer_start": [ 533 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee (i/tɛnᵻˈsiː/) (Cherokee: ᏔᎾᏏ, Tanasi) is a state located in the southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south,...
What is Tennessee's most populous city?
{ "text": [ "Memphis" ], "answer_start": [ 579 ] }
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Tennessee
The state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th sta...
What government formed in 1772 is considered the forerunner of Tennessee?
{ "text": [ "Watauga Association" ], "answer_start": [ 40 ] }
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Tennessee
The state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th sta...
What state held territory that would later become part of Tennessee?
{ "text": [ "North Carolina" ], "answer_start": [ 210 ] }
572bd14c34ae481900deaf17
Tennessee
The state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th sta...
What date did Tennessee become one of the United States of America?
{ "text": [ "June 1, 1796" ], "answer_start": [ 326 ] }
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Tennessee
The state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th sta...
Which was the final state to join the Confederacy before Civil War fighting started?
{ "text": [ "Tennessee" ], "answer_start": [ 340 ] }
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Tennessee
The state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th sta...
Which of the Confederate states rejoined the Union first when the Civil War concluded?
{ "text": [ "Tennessee" ], "answer_start": [ 340 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state, and more soldiers for the Union Army than any other Southern state. Beginning during Reconstruction, it had competitive party politics, but a Democratic takeover in the late 1880s resulted in passage of disfranchisement laws that excluded ...
Which part dominated Tennessee's politics in the late 1880s?
{ "text": [ "Democratic" ], "answer_start": [ 223 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state, and more soldiers for the Union Army than any other Southern state. Beginning during Reconstruction, it had competitive party politics, but a Democratic takeover in the late 1880s resulted in passage of disfranchisement laws that excluded ...
Which Tennessee city was received significant federal investment in the 1940s?
{ "text": [ "Oak Ridge" ], "answer_start": [ 704 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state, and more soldiers for the Union Army than any other Southern state. Beginning during Reconstruction, it had competitive party politics, but a Democratic takeover in the late 1880s resulted in passage of disfranchisement laws that excluded ...
What part of the Manhattan Project did Tennessee host?
{ "text": [ "uranium enrichment facilities" ], "answer_start": [ 774 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state, and more soldiers for the Union Army than any other Southern state. Beginning during Reconstruction, it had competitive party politics, but a Democratic takeover in the late 1880s resulted in passage of disfranchisement laws that excluded ...
What made Tennessee politics more competitive again in the middle of the 20th century?
{ "text": [ "civil rights legislation" ], "answer_start": [ 447 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee has played a critical role in the development of many forms of American popular music, including rock and roll, blues, country, and rockabilly.[not verified in body] Beale Street in Memphis is considered by many to be the birthplace of the blues, with musicians such as W.C. Handy performing in its clubs as ea...
What locale in Memphis is know as the place where blues was born?
{ "text": [ "Beale Street" ], "answer_start": [ 176 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee has played a critical role in the development of many forms of American popular music, including rock and roll, blues, country, and rockabilly.[not verified in body] Beale Street in Memphis is considered by many to be the birthplace of the blues, with musicians such as W.C. Handy performing in its clubs as ea...
What Tennessee recording company first promoted Elvis Presley?
{ "text": [ "Sun Records" ], "answer_start": [ 379 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee has played a critical role in the development of many forms of American popular music, including rock and roll, blues, country, and rockabilly.[not verified in body] Beale Street in Memphis is considered by many to be the birthplace of the blues, with musicians such as W.C. Handy performing in its clubs as ea...
Which Tennessee city is home to the Country Music Hall of Fame?
{ "text": [ "Nashville" ], "answer_start": [ 1034 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee has played a critical role in the development of many forms of American popular music, including rock and roll, blues, country, and rockabilly.[not verified in body] Beale Street in Memphis is considered by many to be the birthplace of the blues, with musicians such as W.C. Handy performing in its clubs as ea...
Which museum celebrating popular music is located in Jackson, Tennessee?
{ "text": [ "International Rock-A-Billy Museum" ], "answer_start": [ 1053 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee has played a critical role in the development of many forms of American popular music, including rock and roll, blues, country, and rockabilly.[not verified in body] Beale Street in Memphis is considered by many to be the birthplace of the blues, with musicians such as W.C. Handy performing in its clubs as ea...
In which year is W.C. Handy first known to have been playing in Tennessee clubs?
{ "text": [ "1909" ], "answer_start": [ 327 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee's major industries include agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism. Poultry, soybeans, and cattle are the state's primary agricultural products, and major manufacturing exports include chemicals, transportation equipment, and electrical equipment. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation's most vis...
What is Tennessee's primary non-meat agricultural product?
{ "text": [ "soybeans" ], "answer_start": [ 87 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee's major industries include agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism. Poultry, soybeans, and cattle are the state's primary agricultural products, and major manufacturing exports include chemicals, transportation equipment, and electrical equipment. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation's most vis...
Which national park in Tennessee sees more visitors that any other in the United States?
{ "text": [ "Great Smoky Mountains National Park" ], "answer_start": [ 262 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee's major industries include agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism. Poultry, soybeans, and cattle are the state's primary agricultural products, and major manufacturing exports include chemicals, transportation equipment, and electrical equipment. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation's most vis...
What trail forms part of the border Tennessee shares with North Carolina?
{ "text": [ "Appalachian Trail" ], "answer_start": [ 412 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee's major industries include agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism. Poultry, soybeans, and cattle are the state's primary agricultural products, and major manufacturing exports include chemicals, transportation equipment, and electrical equipment. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation's most vis...
Which Tennessee city hosts the state's most famous aquarium?
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Tennessee
Tennessee's major industries include agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism. Poultry, soybeans, and cattle are the state's primary agricultural products, and major manufacturing exports include chemicals, transportation equipment, and electrical equipment. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation's most vis...
What tourist attraction is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee?
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The earliest variant of the name that became Tennessee was recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and his men passed through an American Indian village named "Tanasqui" in 1567 while traveling inland from South Carolina. In the early 18th century, British traders encountered a Cherokee town named...
Who first recorded a territorial name in the region that resembles its current name Tennessee?
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Tennessee
The earliest variant of the name that became Tennessee was recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and his men passed through an American Indian village named "Tanasqui" in 1567 while traveling inland from South Carolina. In the early 18th century, British traders encountered a Cherokee town named...
Which Native Americans had a town called Tanasi in present day Monroe County, Tennessee?
{ "text": [ "Cherokee" ], "answer_start": [ 301 ] }
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Tennessee
The earliest variant of the name that became Tennessee was recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and his men passed through an American Indian village named "Tanasqui" in 1567 while traveling inland from South Carolina. In the early 18th century, British traders encountered a Cherokee town named...
Tanasi is know to have been located and mapped by British traders by which year?
{ "text": [ "1725" ], "answer_start": [ 507 ] }
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The earliest variant of the name that became Tennessee was recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and his men passed through an American Indian village named "Tanasqui" in 1567 while traveling inland from South Carolina. In the early 18th century, British traders encountered a Cherokee town named...
What nationality was Juan Pardo?
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The modern spelling, Tennessee, is attributed to James Glen, the governor of South Carolina, who used this spelling in his official correspondence during the 1750s. The spelling was popularized by the publication of Henry Timberlake's "Draught of the Cherokee Country" in 1765. In 1788, North Carolina created "Tennessee...
Which governor is given credit for the name Tennessee as it is now spelled?
{ "text": [ "James Glen" ], "answer_start": [ 49 ] }
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Tennessee
The modern spelling, Tennessee, is attributed to James Glen, the governor of South Carolina, who used this spelling in his official correspondence during the 1750s. The spelling was popularized by the publication of Henry Timberlake's "Draught of the Cherokee Country" in 1765. In 1788, North Carolina created "Tennessee...
Which work by Henry Timberlake made the current spelling of Tennessee widely popular?
{ "text": [ "Draught of the Cherokee Country" ], "answer_start": [ 236 ] }
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Tennessee
The modern spelling, Tennessee, is attributed to James Glen, the governor of South Carolina, who used this spelling in his official correspondence during the 1750s. The spelling was popularized by the publication of Henry Timberlake's "Draught of the Cherokee Country" in 1765. In 1788, North Carolina created "Tennessee...
Which state created a county called Tennessee in 1788?
{ "text": [ "North Carolina" ], "answer_start": [ 287 ] }
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Tennessee
The modern spelling, Tennessee, is attributed to James Glen, the governor of South Carolina, who used this spelling in his official correspondence during the 1750s. The spelling was popularized by the publication of Henry Timberlake's "Draught of the Cherokee Country" in 1765. In 1788, North Carolina created "Tennessee...
Which two Tennessee counties cover the area that comprised North Carolina's Tennessee County?
{ "text": [ "Montgomery County and Robertson County" ], "answer_start": [ 451 ] }
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Tennessee
The modern spelling, Tennessee, is attributed to James Glen, the governor of South Carolina, who used this spelling in his official correspondence during the 1750s. The spelling was popularized by the publication of Henry Timberlake's "Draught of the Cherokee Country" in 1765. In 1788, North Carolina created "Tennessee...
In which year did a constitutional convention meet to form a new state out of the unincorporated territory that would become Tennessee?
{ "text": [ "1796" ], "answer_start": [ 532 ] }
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Tennessee is known as the "Volunteer State", a nickname some claimed was earned during the War of 1812 because of the prominent role played by volunteer soldiers from Tennessee, especially during the Battle of New Orleans. Other sources differ on the origin of the state nickname; according to the Columbia Encyclopedia,...
By what nickname is Tennessee officially known?
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Tennessee
Tennessee is known as the "Volunteer State", a nickname some claimed was earned during the War of 1812 because of the prominent role played by volunteer soldiers from Tennessee, especially during the Battle of New Orleans. Other sources differ on the origin of the state nickname; according to the Columbia Encyclopedia,...
Which major conflict that included the Battle of New Orleans is said to have given Tennessee its nickname?
{ "text": [ "War of 1812" ], "answer_start": [ 91 ] }
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Tennessee
Tennessee is known as the "Volunteer State", a nickname some claimed was earned during the War of 1812 because of the prominent role played by volunteer soldiers from Tennessee, especially during the Battle of New Orleans. Other sources differ on the origin of the state nickname; according to the Columbia Encyclopedia,...
What conflict overseen by President Polk might be the source of Tennessee's nickname?
{ "text": [ "Mexican–American War" ], "answer_start": [ 359 ] }
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Tennessee is known as the "Volunteer State", a nickname some claimed was earned during the War of 1812 because of the prominent role played by volunteer soldiers from Tennessee, especially during the Battle of New Orleans. Other sources differ on the origin of the state nickname; according to the Columbia Encyclopedia,...
How many volunteers did Tennessee send to the Mexican-American War?
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Tennessee is known as the "Volunteer State", a nickname some claimed was earned during the War of 1812 because of the prominent role played by volunteer soldiers from Tennessee, especially during the Battle of New Orleans. Other sources differ on the origin of the state nickname; according to the Columbia Encyclopedia,...
Which local icon's death inspired many of the Tennessee volunteers during the Mexican-American War?
{ "text": [ "Davy Crockett" ], "answer_start": [ 609 ] }
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The highest point in the state is Clingmans Dome at 6,643 feet (2,025 m). Clingmans Dome, which lies on Tennessee's eastern border, is the highest point on the Appalachian Trail, and is the third highest peak in the United States east of the Mississippi River. The state line between Tennessee and North Carolina crosses...
What is the elevation of Tennessee's highest point?
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Tennessee
The highest point in the state is Clingmans Dome at 6,643 feet (2,025 m). Clingmans Dome, which lies on Tennessee's eastern border, is the highest point on the Appalachian Trail, and is the third highest peak in the United States east of the Mississippi River. The state line between Tennessee and North Carolina crosses...
What mountain in Tennessee is the Appalachian Trail's highest point?
{ "text": [ "Clingmans Dome" ], "answer_start": [ 34 ] }
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Tennessee
The highest point in the state is Clingmans Dome at 6,643 feet (2,025 m). Clingmans Dome, which lies on Tennessee's eastern border, is the highest point on the Appalachian Trail, and is the third highest peak in the United States east of the Mississippi River. The state line between Tennessee and North Carolina crosses...
What river is situated on Tennessee point of lowest elevation?
{ "text": [ "Mississippi River" ], "answer_start": [ 365 ] }
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Tennessee
The highest point in the state is Clingmans Dome at 6,643 feet (2,025 m). Clingmans Dome, which lies on Tennessee's eastern border, is the highest point on the Appalachian Trail, and is the third highest peak in the United States east of the Mississippi River. The state line between Tennessee and North Carolina crosses...
Which city marks the geographical center of Tennessee?
{ "text": [ "Murfreesboro" ], "answer_start": [ 524 ] }
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Stretching west from the Blue Ridge for approximately 55 miles (89 km) is the Ridge and Valley region, in which numerous tributaries join to form the Tennessee River in the Tennessee Valley. This area of Tennessee is covered by fertile valleys separated by wooded ridges, such as Bays Mountain and Clinch Mountain. The w...
Approximately how many miles long is Tennessee's Ridge and Valley region?
{ "text": [ "55" ], "answer_start": [ 54 ] }
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Tennessee
Stretching west from the Blue Ridge for approximately 55 miles (89 km) is the Ridge and Valley region, in which numerous tributaries join to form the Tennessee River in the Tennessee Valley. This area of Tennessee is covered by fertile valleys separated by wooded ridges, such as Bays Mountain and Clinch Mountain. The w...
What is the western part of the Tennessee Valley called?
{ "text": [ "the Great Valley" ], "answer_start": [ 436 ] }
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Tennessee
Stretching west from the Blue Ridge for approximately 55 miles (89 km) is the Ridge and Valley region, in which numerous tributaries join to form the Tennessee River in the Tennessee Valley. This area of Tennessee is covered by fertile valleys separated by wooded ridges, such as Bays Mountain and Clinch Mountain. The w...
Which city is Tennessee's fourth largest?
{ "text": [ "Chattanooga" ], "answer_start": [ 581 ] }
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Tennessee
Stretching west from the Blue Ridge for approximately 55 miles (89 km) is the Ridge and Valley region, in which numerous tributaries join to form the Tennessee River in the Tennessee Valley. This area of Tennessee is covered by fertile valleys separated by wooded ridges, such as Bays Mountain and Clinch Mountain. The w...
Together, Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport are known by what name?
{ "text": [ "the Tri-Cities" ], "answer_start": [ 651 ] }
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Tennessee
Stretching west from the Blue Ridge for approximately 55 miles (89 km) is the Ridge and Valley region, in which numerous tributaries join to form the Tennessee River in the Tennessee Valley. This area of Tennessee is covered by fertile valleys separated by wooded ridges, such as Bays Mountain and Clinch Mountain. The w...
What river forms in the Tennessee Valley?
{ "text": [ "Tennessee River" ], "answer_start": [ 150 ] }
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East Tennessee has several important transportation links with Middle and West Tennessee, as well as the rest of the nation and the world, including several major airports and interstates. Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS) and Chattanooga's Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CHA), as well as the Tri-Cities' Tri-Cit...
Which Tennessee airport has the code TYS?
{ "text": [ "McGhee Tyson Airport" ], "answer_start": [ 201 ] }
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Tennessee
East Tennessee has several important transportation links with Middle and West Tennessee, as well as the rest of the nation and the world, including several major airports and interstates. Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS) and Chattanooga's Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CHA), as well as the Tri-Cities' Tri-Cit...
What is the name of the airport serving Chattanooga, TN?
{ "text": [ "Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport" ], "answer_start": [ 246 ] }
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Tennessee
East Tennessee has several important transportation links with Middle and West Tennessee, as well as the rest of the nation and the world, including several major airports and interstates. Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS) and Chattanooga's Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CHA), as well as the Tri-Cities' Tri-Cit...
What interstate highways cross the Grand Division in Tennessee?
{ "text": [ "I-24, I-81, I-40, I-75, and I-26" ], "answer_start": [ 394 ] }
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Tennessee
East Tennessee has several important transportation links with Middle and West Tennessee, as well as the rest of the nation and the world, including several major airports and interstates. Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS) and Chattanooga's Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CHA), as well as the Tri-Cities' Tri-Cit...
An airport with which code serves the Tri-Cities area in Tennessee?
{ "text": [ "TRI" ], "answer_start": [ 342 ] }
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The easternmost section, about 10 miles (16 km) in width, consists of hilly land that runs along the western bank of the Tennessee River. To the west of this narrow strip of land is a wide area of rolling hills and streams that stretches all the way to the Mississippi River; this area is called the Tennessee Bottoms or...
What is the lowland area of Tennessee between the Tennessee River and Mississippi River called?
{ "text": [ "Tennessee Bottoms" ], "answer_start": [ 300 ] }
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Tennessee
The easternmost section, about 10 miles (16 km) in width, consists of hilly land that runs along the western bank of the Tennessee River. To the west of this narrow strip of land is a wide area of rolling hills and streams that stretches all the way to the Mississippi River; this area is called the Tennessee Bottoms or...
What geographical region lies west of the Tennessee bottom land?
{ "text": [ "Mississippi Alluvial Plain" ], "answer_start": [ 455 ] }
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Tennessee
The easternmost section, about 10 miles (16 km) in width, consists of hilly land that runs along the western bank of the Tennessee River. To the west of this narrow strip of land is a wide area of rolling hills and streams that stretches all the way to the Mississippi River; this area is called the Tennessee Bottoms or...
What maximum elevation is the land in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain?
{ "text": [ "300 feet (90 m) above sea level" ], "answer_start": [ 493 ] }
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Tennessee
The easternmost section, about 10 miles (16 km) in width, consists of hilly land that runs along the western bank of the Tennessee River. To the west of this narrow strip of land is a wide area of rolling hills and streams that stretches all the way to the Mississippi River; this area is called the Tennessee Bottoms or...
What city is central to the economy of West Tennessee?
{ "text": [ "Memphis" ], "answer_start": [ 624 ] }