Portal:Education/Did you know/15

...that in the early 20th century, when education was segregated in the United States, the Calhoun Colored School (pictured) focused on vocational education for African Americans instead of classical education to protect the school from being closed down?
...that James Roche became CEO and chairman of the board of General Motors without a college education?
...that Marrack Goulding, a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1997 to 2006?
...that the first co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908?
...that Somerset cricket captain Jack Meyer was entrusted with the education of seven Indian boys, six of them princes, and founded the Millfield School to do so?