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A school is both the educational institution and building designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools that can be built and operated by both government and private organization. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the Regional terms section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university.

In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational school, college or seminary may be available after secondary school. A school may be dedicated to one particular field, such as a school of economics or dance. Alternative schools may provide nontraditional curriculum and methods. (Full article...)

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Barnard Castle School (colloquially Barney School or locally the County School) is a co-educational private day and boarding school in the market town of Barnard Castle, County Durham, in the North East of England. It is a member of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). It was founded in 1883 with funding from a 13th-century endowment of John I de Balliol and the bequest of the local industrialist Benjamin Flounders. The ambition was to create a school of the quality of the ancient public schools at a more reasonable cost, whilst accepting pupils regardless of their faith.

Originally the North Eastern County School, the name was changed in 1924, but is still generally known locally as the "County School". The school is set in its own 50-acre (20 ha) grounds in Teesdale, within the North Pennines, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. An on-site prep school caters for pupils aged 4 to 11, while the senior school caters for pupils aged 11 to 18. The school was previously funded by direct grant. Founded as an all-boys school, it has been fully co-educational since 1993. There are around 660 pupils and some 200 members of staff. (Full article...)

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The Lycée Henri-IV (sometimes called HIV, H4, or Henri-Quatre) is a public secondary school located in Paris, France. Henri-IV is located in the nationally-historic buildings of the former Sainte Geneviève abbey. After the French Revolution, it was transformed into a public lycée, the first one in France. Its former pupils include French philosophers and writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and André Gide.

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May

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1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a decision for Brown v. Board of Education, overturning earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, and declaring that state laws that established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities.

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1927 – School board member Andrew Kehoe sets up a series of bombs in a Bath Township, Michigan elementary school, killing 45 people and injuring 58. The bombings were the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history and became known as the Bath School disaster.

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1966 – A group of students at the Tsinghua University Middle School in China use the name Red Guards to sign two big-character posters issued on 29 May. The name would eventually become the label for students and other young people in the People's Republic of China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong between 1966 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution.

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Francis Dzierozynski (born Franciszek Dzierożyński; January 3, 1779 – September 22, 1850) was a Polish Catholic priest and Jesuit who became a prominent missionary to the United States. Born in the town of Orsha, in the Russian Empire (modern-day Belarus), he entered the Society of Jesus and was ordained a priest in 1806. He taught and studied in Polotsk and Mogilev until leading students in an escape from the French invasion of Russia in 1812. He returned to Polotsk, where he taught until the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Russian Empire in 1820. Thereafter, he took up teaching in Bologna, Italy.

The Jesuit Superior General sent Dzierozynski to the United States as a missionary the following year. He was given broad authority over the Jesuits' Maryland Mission, and taught at Georgetown College while learning English. In 1823, he was appointed the superior of the Maryland Mission, with jurisdiction over all the Jesuits in the United States. During his term, he continued teaching at Georgetown, where he was also master of novices. As superior, he reconciled the Society of Jesus and the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen, a holdover from the period of suppression of the Jesuits that owned most of the American Jesuits' property, and oversaw the transition of Saint Louis College into a Jesuit institution. He also was involved in significant disputes with the American bishops, especially Ambrose Maréchal, with whom his quarrel over the ownership of valuable White Marsh Manor, endured for many years and involved such prominent figures as John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Roger Taney, Luigi Fortis, and Pope Pius VII. (Full article...)

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Image 1Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 2A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 3Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 4A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 5Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 6Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 7RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 8Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 9Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 10World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
- 0.950 and over
- 0.900–0.949
- 0.850–0.899
- 0.800–0.849
- 0.750–0.799
- 0.700–0.749
- 0.650–0.699
- 0.600–0.649
- 0.550–0.599
- 0.500–0.549
- 0.450–0.499
- 0.400–0.449
- 0.350–0.399
- under 0.350
- not available
(from History of education)
Image 11Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 12One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 13Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 14First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 15The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 16City College of New York (from College)
Image 17Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 18Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 19György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 20Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 21Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 22Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 23King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 24Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 25Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 26King's College London in 1831, as engraved by J. C. Carter. It is one of the founding institutions of University of London, established in 1836. (from History of education)
Image 27Loyola School, Chennai, India – run by the Catholic Diocese of Madras. Christian missionaries played a pivotal role in establishing modern schools in India. (from School)
Image 28Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 29Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 30St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 31Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 32Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 33Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 34Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 35Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 36Pomona College (from College)
Image 37Albert Bettannier's 1887 painting La Tache noire depicts a child being taught about the "lost" province of Alsace-Lorraine in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War – an example of how European schools were often used in order to inoculate Nationalism in their pupils. (from School)
Image 38Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 39Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 40St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 41A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 42A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 43The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 44A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 45Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 46The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 47The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 48Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 49Scripps College (from College)
Image 50Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 51Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 52A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 53Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 54To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 55West Park Secondary School in Toronto is an example. It was built in 1968 for students with slow learning or special needs. (from Vocational school)
Image 56SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 57The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)

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