Portal:Education/Did you know/14

...that since 2002, New York's Middletown High School (pictured} has seen the district superintendent convicted of sexual abuse, had one principal resign and another suspended, had two student walkouts and was ordered to reinstate a teacher?
...that Vera Pezer, current Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan, is a four-time Canadian Ladies' curling champion and a member of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame?
...that The Harvey School, a rural school in New York, was established to give an education to the founder's handicapped son?
...that C.W.W. Kannangara, Sri Lanka's first Minister of Education, made education free for all children in the country?
...that the accuracy of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was challenged in the English High Court of Justice case Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills?