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William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon. The son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, he was probably educated at the King Edward IV Grammar School in Stratford, where he learned Latin and a little Greek and read the Roman dramatists. At eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, a woman seven or eight years his senior. Together they raised two daughters: Susanna, who was born in 1583, and Judith (whose twin brother died in boyhood), born in 1585. Little is known about Shakespeare’s activities between 1585 and 1592. Robert Greene’s  A Groatsworth of Wit  alludes to him as an actor and playwright. Shakespeare may have taught at school during this period, but it seems more probable that shortly after 1585 he went to London to begin his apprenticeship as an actor. Due to the plague, the London theaters were often closed between June 1592 and April 1594. During that period, Shakespeare probably had some income from his patron, Henry Wriothesley, earl of Southamp

A    global    educational    study    called PISA (Program for International    Assessment ) tests over 500,000 pupils in over 70 countries every three years. The 2010 results showed that pupils in Shanghai are the world’s best in reading mathematics and   science . PISA studies 15 year olds and their    abilities in the three fields.   The study did not rank China as a whole but Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macao as    separate    countries. South Korea, Singapore Taiwan and Japan were other Asian nations that    ranked    well. In many western countries the reading    score    was down. In Europe, Finland still stays in the number one spot although    it is    ranking    third overall. Americans are, at best,    average , ranking 17th    in reading, 23rd    in science and 31st    in mathematics. Why have Asian countries overtaken Europe and America in the tests?   First, they put more    focus    on education.    Children, parents and teachers know that a good education is the