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 * ... that Francis Wayland Parker, creator of the Quincy Plan and founder of the School of Education at the University of Chicago, was called the "father of progressive education" by American educational reformer John Dewey?
 * ... that American basketball player Fred Roberts was chosen by the Miami Heat in their expansion draft, but never played a game for them in the NBA?
 * ... that architect Frederick W. Garber based his design for the Walnut Hills High School (pictured) in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the rotunda of Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia?