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Horace Mann
Horace Mann (1796-1859), American educator and Whig politician, first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education (1837-1848), leader of the common school movement, founder of normal schools, later U.S. representative and president of Antioch College.
Impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns on education
Impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns on education: global school closures from 2020 affecting over 1.6 billion learners, causing measured learning deficits (Cohen's d = −0.14), unequal losses, and projected long-run economic costs.
Jiang Xueqin (蒋学勤)
Jiang Xueqin (蒋学勤), born in 1976, is a Chinese-Canadian educator and writer known for experimental school reform in China's elite high schools and the Predictive History YouTube channel.
John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018), American schoolteacher and author, New York State Teacher of the Year 1991, resigned via Wall Street Journal op-ed; wrote Dumbing Us Down and The Underground History of American Education criticizing compulsory schooling and promoting homeschooling and unschooling.
Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol, American education writer and former Boston teacher, Rhodes Scholar, author of Death at an Early Age (National Book Award) and Savage Inequalities (1991), chronicler of school funding inequality and segregation.
Kamar Samuels
Kamar H. Samuels, Jamaican-born American educator, Chancellor of New York City Public Schools since January 1, 2026, appointed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani; former Bronx teacher, Bronx Writing Academy principal, and Brooklyn and Manhattan district superintendent.
Katharine Birbalsingh
Katharine Birbalsingh, Britain's 'strictest headmistress', co-founded Michaela Community School in Wembley in 2014, chaired the Social Mobility Commission 2021-2023, and received a CBE in 2020.
Ken Robinson (educationalist)
Sir Ken Robinson (1950-2020), British educationalist, professor at the University of Warwick, chaired the UK's 1998 creativity commission; his 2006 TED talk "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" is TED's most-viewed talk; author of The Element and Creative Schools.
Kothari Commission
Kothari Commission (Education Commission, 1964-66), chaired by D. S. Kothari, advised India on all stages of education; its 1966 report Education and National Development produced the 10+2+3 structure, three-language formula, common school system, and 6% GDP target behind the 1968 National Policy on Education.
Lex Apponyi
Lex Apponyi is the name for Hungarian school laws of 1907 and 1908 under Count Albert Apponyi, tying state aid to church schools to Hungarian-language teaching.
Michael Barbaro
Michael Barbaro (Michael Christopher Barbaro), born 1979, is an American journalist who hosts The Daily, the New York Times news podcast whose downloads grew from 5.8 million to 48 million between 2017 and 2019.
Michelle Rhee
Michelle Rhee, DC Public Schools chancellor 2007–2010 under Mayor Adrian Fenty, founder of The New Teacher Project and creator of the IMPACT teacher-evaluation system; her tenure produced large teacher turnover, measured achievement gains, and persistent criticism over disparities and racial bias in evaluations.
Miguel Cardona
Miguel Cardona (born 1975) is an American educator who served as the 12th U.S. Secretary of Education from 2021 to 2025, the third Hispanic in that role.
Ministry of Education (शिक्षा मंत्रालय) (India)
Ministry of Education (शिक्षा मंत्रालय), India's central education ministry, formerly MHRD (1985-2020), operating through the Departments of School Education & Literacy and Higher Education, with a ₹1,39,289.48 crore 2026-27 budget.
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (文部科学省)
MEXT (文部科学省, Monbu-kagaku-sho) is Japan's ministry for education, science, sports, and culture, descended from the Monbusho established in 1871. It sets National Curriculum Standards, oversees universities, and administers the MEXT scholarship.
Mississippi Miracle
The Mississippi Miracle is the rise of Mississippi's fourth-grade NAEP reading scores from 49th nationally in 2013 to 9th in 2024, attributed to the 2013 Literacy-Based Promotion Act, science-of-reading teacher training, and third-grade retention, with ongoing debate over causes.
National Council for Teacher Education (राष्ट्रीय अध्यापक शिक्षा परिषद)
National Council for Teacher Education (राष्ट्रीय अध्यापक शिक्षा परिषद, NCTE) is India's statutory teacher education regulator under the NCTE Act 1993, established 17 August 1995, with four Regional Committees, ITEP transition rules, and draft 2025 regulations.
National Education Association
The National Education Association (NEA), founded 1857 in Philadelphia as the National Teachers Association, is the largest US teachers' union, federally chartered since 1906, with about 2.85 million members and a delegate Representative Assembly.
National Education Policy 2020
National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), approved 29 July 2020, is India's third national education policy, replacing the 1986 policy. It introduces the 5+3+3+4 school structure, targets 50% higher education GER by 2035, and drives ongoing implementation reforms.
National Media Authority (الهيئة الوطنية للإعلام)
Egyptian National Media Authority (الهيئة الوطنية للإعلام), known as Maspero, is Egypt's state broadcasting body under Law 178/2018; distinct from the UAE authority of the same name created in 2025.
National Policy on Education
National Policy on Education (NPE): India's national education policy framework, first adopted 1968 from Kothari Commission recommendations, revised 1986 and 1992 (Operation Blackboard, Navodaya Vidyalayas, 6% GDP target), replaced by NEP 2020.
National Science Day
National Science Day is an annual observance in India held on February 28 to promote public understanding of science and commemorate the Raman Effect announcement in 1928.
Nationalization of schools in Tanzania
The nationalization of schools in Tanzania was the transfer of private and mission schools into state ownership from the late 1960s under Nyerere's socialist Arusha Declaration of 1967.
New Math
New Math, also called New Mathematics, was a Cold War-era school mathematics reform movement, strongest in the United States from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, that taught set theory and axiomatic algebra.
New Orleans school desegregation crisis
The New Orleans school desegregation crisis of November 14, 1960, when Ruby Bridges and three other first-graders integrated William Frantz and McDonogh 19 schools, the first Deep South school desegregation, amid massive state resistance.
No Child Left Behind Act
No Child Left Behind Act (P.L. 107-110, 2002), reauthorization of the ESEA: required grades 3-8 reading and math testing, disaggregated AYP with 95% participation, highly qualified teachers, escalating sanctions; replaced by ESSA in 2015.
Open Sauce
Open Sauce is an annual maker and creator festival in San Mateo, California, founded in 2023 by YouTuber William Osman, featuring 500+ DIY projects, YouTube creator panels, free exhibitor booths, and the Sauce+ streaming service.
Organizational Policy
Organizational policy is a written statement of an organization's position or course of action, setting broad boundaries for decisions in public, non-profit, and business sectors.
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (राष्ट्रीय माध्यमिक शिक्षा अभियान)
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA, राष्ट्रीय माध्यमिक शिक्षा अभियान) was India's centrally sponsored secondary education scheme launched March 2009, targeting 75% GER for classes IX-X, universal access by 2017, and subsumed into Samagra Shiksha in 2018.
Ratio Educationis
Ratio Educationis was a royal decree issued by Queen Maria Theresa in 1777, the first comprehensive state regulation of public education in the Kingdom of Hungary.