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1961 nationalization of education in Cuba
The 1961 nationalization of education in Cuba transferred all private schools to the Cuban State under a June 1961 act, making education public and free.
Aligarh Movement
Aligarh Movement, Muslim reform movement of British India founded by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817–1898); centered on the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (1875/1877), which became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920, promoting Western education and spawning the Muslim League.
Anísio Teixeira
Anísio Spínola Teixeira (1900–1971) was a Brazilian educator and jurist who led education reform in Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, founded CAPES, and co-founded the University of Brasília.
Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan, ninth U.S. Secretary of Education (2009-2015) under Obama and former Chicago Public Schools CEO, drove Race to the Top, Common Core support, and NCLB waivers, then founded the anti-gun-violence group Chicago CRED in 2016.
Avery Haines
Avery Haines: Canadian investigative journalist, full name Avery Hayward Haines, host and managing editor of CTV's W5 since 2020; also the name of a US junior artistic gymnast of First State Gymnastics and an Oklahoma family-law attorney.
BBC News (international TV channel)
BBC News, formerly BBC World News and BBC World, is the BBC's international English-language 24-hour pay TV channel, launched as World Service Television News in 1991, merged with the UK channel under the BBC News name in April 2023, reaching 467 million weekly.
Betsy DeVos
Betsy DeVos (born 1958), née Prince, is an American philanthropist and school-choice advocate who served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Education (2017-2021), confirmed 51-50 with Pence's tie-breaking vote.
Bill Nye–Ken Ham debate
The Bill Nye–Ken Ham debate, also called Scopes II, was a February 4, 2014 creationism-versus-evolution debate at Kentucky's Creation Museum between science educator Bill Nye and Answers in Genesis CEO Ken Ham, watched by millions.
Bolivian education reform of 1955
The Bolivian education reform of 1955 established a single national school system through the Bolivian Education Code, opening schooling to the rural, indigenous majority for the first time.
Clara Lionel Foundation
Clara Lionel Foundation (CLF), Rihanna's 2012-founded 501(c)(3) grantmaker in New York, funds community-led climate resilience, health, arts, and women's entrepreneurship in the Caribbean, East Africa, and U.S. South, with over $100 million granted since 2012.
Compulsory education
Compulsory education legally requires children to receive schooling for a set period, typically ages 6 to 14, with the first such law adopted in Gotha in 1642.
Dawn (newspaper)
Dawn is Pakistan's oldest English-language newspaper, founded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Delhi as a weekly on 26 October 1941, a daily from October 1942, moved to Karachi in 1947, and published today by the Dawn Group.
Department of Education (Philippines)
Department of Education (DepEd), the Philippine executive department governing basic education under RA 9155 (2001); runs the K to 12 system, MATATAG curriculum reform, and Strengthened SHS program.
Economics of Education Review
The Economics of Education Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier since 1981, covering education policy, finance, and the returns to human capital.
Education Finance and Policy
Education Finance and Policy is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by The MIT Press since 2005, covering education finance, policy, and practice from early childhood through graduate education.
Education in Australia
Education in Australia: 13-year school system (preschool to Year 12) governed by state and territory ownership with Commonwealth funding under the Australian Education Act 2013, the Australian Curriculum v9.0, NAPLAN, and ATAR-based senior certificates.
Education in Denmark
Education in Denmark: publicly financed system centered on the comprehensive folkeskole (ages 7-16), with roots in the 1814 school laws, high spending, above-average equity, and declining PISA 2025 scores.
Education in Indonesia
Education in Indonesia: the national school system, from pesantren and Dutch colonial schooling through independence-era expansion, repeated curriculum changes (1947 to Kurikulum Merdeka, Permendikdasmen 13/2025), teacher-quality reforms, and persistent learning-outcome and equity challenges measured by PISA and national assessments.
Education in Malaysia
Education in Malaysia (Pendidikan di Malaysia): Ministry of Education-run system of preschool, 6-year compulsory primary, secondary and higher education; Malay-medium national schools plus Chinese and Tamil national-type schools; blueprints PPPM 2013-2025 and RPM 2026-2035; PISA scores below OECD average.
Education in Nigeria
Education in Nigeria: a 6-3-3-4 system run by the Federal Ministry of Education, with free compulsory Universal Basic Education, but 18.3 million out-of-school children, low learning scores, regional north-south gaps, and the 2024 Student Loan Act.
Education in the Soviet Union
Education in the Soviet Union: the state-run secular school and university system created after 1917 under Narkompros, known for its mass literacy campaign (81.2 percent literacy by 1939), centralized common curriculum, and specialized, state-controlled higher education.
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.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), 1965 US federal law (P.L. 89-10) providing the first general federal K-12 aid, whose Title I funds disadvantaged students; reauthorized by NCLB 2001 and ESSA 2015.
Emerson Collective
Emerson Collective, founded by Laurene Powell Jobs in 2011, is a philanthropic and investment LLC (not a foundation) active in education, immigration, climate, and media; it majority-owns The Atlantic since 2017.
Every Student Succeeds Act
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, P.L. 114-95), signed December 10, 2015, is the U.S. federal K-12 law that reauthorized the ESEA of 1965 and replaced No Child Left Behind, giving states control over accountability, testing flexibility, and report cards.
Free education
Free education is schooling provided without tuition fees, guaranteed by law for specified years or grades. Coverage spans compulsory schooling, fee-free secondary programs, and tuition-free public universities in about 31% of countries, with effects on enrollment, completion, and equity.
Free primary education in Malawi
Free primary education in Malawi is the 1994 government policy abolishing fees in public primary schools, which added more than 1 million pupils in its first year.