Portal:Education/Did you know/11

...that Annette Akroyd an orientalist, is remembered primarily for her early efforts at women’s education in India?
...that the enrollment rate of girls in schools in Yemen is the lowest out of all Middle Eastern countries?
...that the founding father of physical education in Poland, Dr. Henryk Jordan, started a school for midwives during his stay in New York City in the late 19th century?
...that the first person in Britain to suggest studying modern history was eighteenth-century clergyman Joseph Priestley?
...that although the No Child Left Behind Act in the United States prescribes the consequences for schools failing to meet Adequate Yearly Progress, it leaves responsibility for defining that progress up to each state education agency?