Portal:Education/Did you know/4

...that Recess (or playtime) in schools teaches children the importance of social skills and physical education?
...that a polymath (also known as a polyhistor) is a person who excels in multiple fields, particularly in both arts and sciences. The most common other term for this phenomenon is Renaissance man?
...that the first school bus was horse-drawn, introduced in 1827 by George Shillibeer for a Quaker school at Abney Park in Stoke Newington, London, and was designed to carry twenty-five children?
...that the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation is a coalition of major professional associations formed in 1975 to help improve the quality of evaluation in the United States. It published three sets of standards for evaluations: The Personnel Evaluation Standards, The Program Evaluation Standards, and The Student Evaluation Standards? Each of the standards has been placed in one of four fundamental categories to promote educational evaluations that are proper, useful, feasible, and accurate.
...that the use of the term President in its current sense, meaning executive government officer, may have come from the colonial-era American university system?