Portal:Education/Did you know/10

...that Flocabulary is an educational New York City-based project that uses hip hop music to teach SAT-level vocabulary?
...that Sir John Ruggles-Brise, 2nd Baronet, Lord Lieutenant of Essex for 20 years, was the first Pro-Chancellor of Essex University?
...that Innocence, a 2005 documentary film about a school in rural northern Thailand, influenced the Thai government to reverse cuts it had made in the education budget?
...that the First Tokyo Middle School, one of the top public secondary schools in Japan, expelled all of its Korean international students in 1905 when they demonstrated against the Eulsa Treaty between Japan and Korea?
...that the Armenian community of Dhaka played a major role in education in Bangladesh, and owned major landmarks like the gardens of Shahbag and Bangabhaban?