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Education Order

The Education Order (教育令) was a Japanese law of 1879 that replaced the centralized Gakusei with locally run elementary schools, requiring only 16 months of attendance; it was revised in 1880 and abolished in 1886.

Education policy

Education policy: government laws, funding, and governance shaping school systems. Covers Prussia's 1763 compulsory schooling origin, UNESCO/OECD/World Bank diagnostic tools, implementation frameworks, and financing trends.

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA/AAPE, ISSN 1068-2341) is a diamond open-access, peer-reviewed education policy journal founded 1993 by Gene V Glass at Arizona State University, publishing in English, Spanish, and Portuguese; Scopus Q2, CiteScore 2.4.

Education policy of the second Trump administration

Education policy of the second Trump administration (from January 20, 2025): executive orders and Department of Education actions to close the department, end DEI and gender-identity policies, reinstate 2020 Title IX rules, and shift control to states.

Education reform

Education reform: purposeful change to education systems' policies, curricula, and governance. Also called educational change; spans Prussia's 1763 compulsory schooling, OECD implementation frameworks, and SDG 4 monitoring.

Education Service Center Region 17 school districts

Education Service Center Region 17 is the Texas service organization supporting the independent school districts of the South Plains, serving 57 districts across 20 counties around Lubbock.

Education Service Center Region 6 and its school districts

Education Service Center Region 6 is a Texas regional service agency, created in 1967 and based in Huntsville, serving 56 school districts across 15 counties.

Education System Order

The Education System Order (学制, Gakusei) was the 1872 Meiji ordinance establishing Japan's first modern national school system, with compulsory elementary attendance; it was replaced in 1879.

Education University of Hong Kong (香港教育大学)

The Education University of Hong Kong (香港教育大學, EdUHK), a UGC-funded teacher education university renamed from HKIEd on 27 May 2016; about 16,600 students, Tai Po campus, ranked 7th worldwide in Education (QS 2026) and 3rd by Shanghai and US News.

Educational Alliance

The Educational Alliance is a nonprofit settlement house founded in 1889 on Manhattan's Lower East Side to serve Jewish immigrants; it now operates community centers, schools, and social services.

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Educational and Psychological Measurement is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering measurement theory in education and psychology, founded by Frederic Kuder in 1941 and published by SAGE Publications.

Educational assessment

Educational assessment is the systematic process of documenting and using evidence about student learning, ranging from classroom checks for understanding to international surveys like PISA, judged by validity, reliability, and fairness.

Educational attainment in the United States

Educational attainment in the United States is the highest level of education a person has completed, as measured by the Census Bureau through the census and American Community Survey.

Educational Broadcasting System (한국교육방송공사)

Educational Broadcasting System (한국교육방송공사, EBS) is South Korea's public educational broadcaster, a statutory public corporation since 2000, operating EBS1, EBS2, FM radio, satellite channels, and e-learning services.

Educational farm

Educational farm (ferme éducative), a farm run for environmental and life education; French official definition from 2001. Documented example: Ferme éducative de Rhinau, AGF Bas-Rhin, created 1982, hosting schools, families, camps, and therapy visits.

Educational game

Educational game: a game designed so play produces learning outcomes; a serious-game category distinct from gamification. Evidence shows small-to-moderate gains (mean effect 0.48) with design-dependent results.

Educational inequality

Educational inequality: unequal distribution of schooling access, learning outcomes, and attainment by socio-economic status, gender, location, and other background; measured via PISA ESCS gradients and UNESCO GEM completion gaps.

Educational psychology

Educational psychology, also called the psychology of teaching and learning, applies psychological principles to teaching, training, and learning in schools, workplaces, and informal settings; APA Division 15, distinct from school psychology (Division 16), with roots in James and Thorndike.

Educational research

Educational research: systematic application of scientific method to educational problems (Mouly). Covers its US history from 1855, RCT and quasi-experimental designs, replication crisis, and evidence use in policy.

Educational stage

Educational stage: a major division of formal learning (primary, secondary, tertiary), standardised internationally by ISCED 2011 levels 0–8, with entry ages, compulsory schooling spans, and national mappings such as US grades 7–12.

Educational Status

Educational status, also called educational attainment or education level, is a MeSH-indexed socioeconomic variable recording an individual's highest education. It predicts health outcomes and is measured via ISCED levels, years of schooling, and datasets such as Barro-Lee.

Educational technology

Educational technology, also known as edtech or instructional technology, is the integration of tools like software, online platforms, and digital content into education to improve learning.

Educational Testing Service

Educational Testing Service (ETS) is an American nonprofit founded in 1947 in Princeton, New Jersey, that develops and scores tests like the TOEFL and GRE.

EDUQ-CPNE trial

EDUQ-CPNE (NCT02311829), a French multicenter randomized trial sponsored by Central Hospital, Nancy, testing psychologist telephone follow-up (DST) versus usual care on quality of life in video-EEG-confirmed psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.

Edurne

Edurne (Edurne García Almagro, born 1985, Madrid) is a Spanish pop singer and TV personality, Operación Triunfo 2005 finalist, Eurovision 2015 entrant with "Amanecer" (21st place), with albums Edurne through éXtasis and Navidad junto a ti.

Eduroam

Eduroam (education roaming) is a free secure Wi-Fi roaming service for the research and education community, letting users connect at over 10,000 hotspots in more than 100 territories using their home institution credentials.

Edvard August Vainio

Edvard August Vainio (Wainio, 1853–1929), Finnish lichenologist, author of Monographia Cladoniarum universalis (1887–1897) and pioneer of phylogenetic lichen classification; curator of herbarium TUR, Turku.

Edvard Beneš

Edvard Beneš (1884–1948), Czechoslovak foreign minister 1918–1935 and second president 1935–1948, exile leader in London, associated with the Munich acceptance and the Beneš Decrees.

Edvard Grieg

Edvard Grieg (Edvard Hagerup Grieg, 1843–1907) was a Norwegian Romantic composer, regarded as Norway's most important, best known for the Piano Concerto in A minor and Peer Gynt incidental music.

Edvard Grieg Oil and Gas Field

Edvard Grieg is an oil and gas field in the central North Sea on the Utsira High, about 180 km west of Stavanger, producing since 2015.