1990 UNESCO 'Children of Chernobyl' Project launched

1990 Student Barack Obama becomes first African American president of Harvard Law Review

1990 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): education one of three criteria to assess Human Development Index

1990 Webster v. New Lenox: school boards have the right to prohibit teaching creationism

1990 Tim Berners-Lee connects hypertext with the internet, creates WorldWideWeb

1990 Schooling beyond "babysitting, job training or incarceration”. Theobald and Snauwaert publish The educational philosophy of Wendell Berry

1990 Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act calls to integrate vocational and academic curricula

1990 Landless Movement of Brazil (MST) begins plans to create a Popular University of Social Movements, later known as Escuela Florestan Fernandes

1991 Transformative learning for sustainable living: Satish Kumar and colleagues create Schumacher College

1991 Arthur Schlesinger rejects Afrocentrism in The disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society

1991 New York Teacher of the Year John Gatto quits teaching because he is "no longer willing to hurt children"

1991 Ken Osborne publishes Teaching for Democratic Citizenship

1991 Tostan, adult education for democracy and human rights in Senegal

1991 In The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, Jacques Rancière discusses autodidactism

1991 Grace Llewellyn publishes The teenage liberation handbook: how to quit school and get a real life and education

1991 Alan Thomas publishes Beyond Education: A New Perspective on Society’s Management of Learning

1992 Agenda 21 calls for reorienting education towards sustainable development

1992 Ecoar Institute for Citizenship launched in Brazil to promote education for sustainable development

1992 Discovery or conquest? After 500 years, schools throughout the Americas re-examine Columbus

1992 “You can tell in ten seconds of silent video how a teacher will be evaluated at the end of the semester”, says Robert Rosenthal

1992: Are programs for English-language learners adequate? Miriam Flores v. Nogales Unified School District

1992 City Academy High School, first charter school in the USA, opens in Minnesota

1993 International Congress and World Plan of Action on Education for Human Rights and Democracy is held in Montreal

1993 Gene Glass (Arizona State University) launches Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA), a peer-reviewed, open access scholarly journal

1993 IHTEC promotes Global Sustainability Education and Peace Education through tourism

1993 Massachusetts become first state in the USA to prohibit discrimination against public school students based on sexual orientation

1994 Herrnstein and Murray publish The Bell Curve, a controversial book on intelligence and social class

1994 Marshall Fritz founds the Alliance for the Separation of School and State

1994 bell hooks publishes Teaching to Transgress, her first major book on education

1994 First KIPP school (Knowledge is Power Program) opens in Houston

1994 Rwanda genocide leaves 95,000 children orphaned, 3,000 teachers killed or forced to flee, and over 600 primary schools destroyed

1994 Richard Brosio publishes A Radical Democratic Critique of Capitalist Education

1994 Andy Hargreaves publishes 'Changing teachers, changing times'

1995 Neil Postman publishes The End of Education: Redefining the Value of Schools

1995 First global teach-in held in New York Cit y

1995 European Community launches Socrates program to promote cooperation in all areas of education

1995 Berliner and Biddle publish The manufactured crisis: myths, fraud, and the attack on America's public schools

1995 Jane Mansbridge raises research challenge: does participation make better citizens?

1996 In Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined, 29 authors critique Herrnstein and Murray's thesis on intelligence and social class

1996 Daloz et al. publish Common Fire, a study on why people become commited to the common good

1996 Ethical dilemmas in university research: the case of Nancy Olivieri

1996 Landless Movement in Brazil starts an itinerant school for landless children on the move

1996 Linda Pierce Picciotto publishes first book on student-led parent conferences

1996 Krasnoyarsk Center for Community Partnerships (KCCP) promotes school and classroom democratization in Siberia

1996 Teacher Mary Kay Letourneau (34) has affair with student Vili Fualaau (12), goes to jail for seven years, and marries him

1996 E.D. Hirsch Jr. publishes The Schools We Need: Why We Don't Have Them

1996 Kundapur Declaration: International Movement of Working Children calls for education system adapted to their reality

1997 Harry Potter encourages millions of children to read amidst controversy over its content

1997 Universitas 21, a multinational consortium of 18 prominent research universities for e-education, is created

1997 Slaughter and Leslie publish Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies and the Entrepreneurial University

1997 Task Force carries out feasibility study on a University of the Arctic

1997 Early literacy crucial for developing certain brain connections, argues Fraser Mustard in The Early Years: The Real Brain Drain

1997 Shirley Steinberg and Joe Kincheloe publish Kinderculture: The corporate construction of childhood

1998 Carlos A. Torres publishes Education, Power and Personal Biography: Dialogues with Critical Educators

1998 First Latin American professor hired at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE/UT)

1 998 Carole Hahn publishes Becoming Political: Comparative Perspectives on Citizenship Education

1998 Reading Excellence Act is passed by U.S. Senate: direct instruction and phonics paradigm for reading instruction

1998 In The Nurture Assumption, Judith Harris argues that "parents matter less than you think and peers matter more"

1998 First “Community University” of Taiwan opens in Taipei

1998 Richard Russo publishes Straight Man, a humorous novel about academic life

1998 In The Education-Jobs Gap: Underemployment or Economic Democracy, David Livingstone exposes explanatory limits of human capital theory

1998 With 'consensus-minus-one', Katarina Tomasevski appointed as first Special Rapporteur on Right to Education of the United Nations

1999 Stigler and Hiebert publish The Teaching Gap, a comparative study on factors influencing effective teaching

1999 The Koret Task Force on K–12 Education is established at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

1999 Kansas Board of Education challenges Darwin's evolution theory, opens road for 'intelligent design'

1999 Highlander Center develops four assumptions and an education plan to promote democratic participation and economic justice

1998 Elba Rivera, who became literate at 18, returns to Nicaragua two decades later, creates school with ecology-centred curriculum

1999 The Immigration Act and the International Convention on the Rights of the Child: Mavis Baker v. Canada

1999 The first national learning channel of Canada is launched

1999 Edgar Morin publishes Seven complex lessons in education for the future

1999 Rate My Professors (RMP) allows university students to annonymously rate their professors online

1999 In the USA, 850,000 students are home-schooled, reports the National Household Education Surveys Program

1999 Leonela Relis' literacy method 'Yo sí puedo' links numbers to letters; after initial success, adopted by many countries

1999 Edmund O'Sullivan publishes Transformative Learning: Educational Vision for the 21st Century

2000 Ken Rowe argues that girls and boys in single-sex settings perform better than their counterparts in co-education environments

2000 Madres de Plaza de Mayo open Universidad Popular in Buenos Aires, Argentina

2000 Diane Ravitch publishes Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms

2000 French, Brazilians meet in Paris to create open learning space for social movements: the World Social Forum is born