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edit   The Schools Portal A school (from Greek σχολεῖον - scholeion) is an institution designed to allow and encourage students (or "pupils") to learn, under the supervision of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students often progress through a series of schools: primary school, secondary school, and possibly a university, vocational school or a college. There are also non-governmental schools, called private or independent schools. A school may be dedicated to a particular field, such as a school of economics or a school of dance. Alternative schools and democratic education may provide nontraditional methods and curriculum, or no curriculum, as it were. In homeschooling and online schools, teaching and learning take place outside of a traditional school building. The use of the term school varies by country, as do the names of the various levels of education within the country. More about Schools... edit   Selected article Balboa High School, colloquially known as Bal, is an American public high school located in the Mission Terrace neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Balboa serves grades nine through twelve as part of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). Balboa is a comprehensive school located in an urban working class district. It historically educates a greater proportion of the city's disadvantaged and minority students relative to other city high schools. Mirroring conditions in the areas it serves, the school has a history marked by periods of violence, controversy, and low academic performance. The school motto is "First on the Pacific". The campus is the first and only historic landmark school in the district and the only one operating in the city. Following the dismissal of the entire faculty in 1999, it became the first school in Northern California to embrace and convert its curriculum to the concept of small learning communities. It was the first in California to start a school-based student health clinic. In response to the AIDS pandemic, it was the first school in California to distribute free condoms to students. In the last decade, Balboa has experienced a turnaround and has improved its reputation and academic performance. edit   Selected picture Stuyvesant High School (IPA: /ˈstаɪvɛsənt/), commonly referred to as Stuy (IPA: /ˈstаɪ/), is a New York City public high school that specializes in mathematics and science. It is one of the most competitive public high schools in the United States, sending more students to some of the nation's most prestigious universities than most other public or private schools. Stuyvesant has produced many notable alumni including four Nobel laureates. edit   In this month May 17th 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. 18th 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. 29th 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. edit   Wikiprojects WikiProject Schools Wikiproject Education • Wikiproject Education in Australia • Wikiproject Education in Canada • Wikiproject Education in Pakistan • Wikiproject Academics • Wikiproject Alternative education • Wikiproject School Years • School and university projects • Deletion sorting/Schools What are WikiProjects? edit   Good content Altes Stadthaus, Bonn · Arlington Senior High School · Auburn High School (Alabama) · Barnard Castle School · Benet Academy · Benjamin Franklin High School (New Orleans) · Caulfield Grammar School · Chetham's School of Music · Gery Chico · City of London School · Direct grant grammar school · Dougherty Valley High School · DuPont Manual High School · Garden City High School (Kansas) · Gordon Parks High School · Hanley Castle High School · Hwa Chong Institution · Johnson Senior High School (St. Paul, Minnesota) · Malvern College · North Community High School · Pathlight School · Phillips Exeter Academy Library · Port Charlotte High School · Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney · Pūnana Leo · Roswell High School (Georgia) · Royal Grammar School, Guildford · Stonyhurst College · Theodore Roosevelt High School (Kent, Ohio) · Whitney High School (Rocklin, California) · Wisbech Grammar School · École L'Odyssée edit   Selected biography Herbert Armitage James, C.H. (3 August 1844 – 15 November 1931) was a Welsh cleric and headmaster of three leading public schools, who ended his "remarkable scholastic career", as it was later described by Austen Chamberlain, by becoming President of St John's College, Oxford. After an Oxford education and early teaching career at Marlborough College, he was headmaster of Rossall School from 1875 to 1886. It was said that he raised the school "to a pitch of all-round excellence which it had not known before". After suffering from health problems at Rossall, he served as Dean of St Asaph from 1886 to 1889. He returned to teaching in 1889, becoming headmaster of Cheltenham College and remaining in this post until 1895. edit   Did you know... ...that Clontarf Aboriginal College (pictured) in Australia has at various points in its history served as an orphanage, a convent, an RAAF training facility, a boarding school and a day school? ...that Wyoming Seminary, a private school in Kingston, Pennsylvania, participated in the first nighttime American football game in 1892? ...that Immediate Past President of the American Bar Association Michael S. Greco taught English at Phillips Exeter Academy before attending law school? edit   Categories ▼ Schools ► Alumni by secondary school ► Schools by city ► School buildings by year of completion ► Lists of schools ► Schools portal ► Schools by religious affiliation ► Schools by continent ► Schools by country ► Schools by type ► Schools by heritage register ► School anime and manga ► Associations of schools ► Awards given to schools ► Bagpiping schools ► School buses ► School colors ► Copenhagen School (security studies) ► Defunct schools ► Regional education units ► School districts ► School examinations ► Schools in fiction ► Fictional schools ► Former school buildings ► History of schools ► Joint Venture Schools ► School museums ► Schools programs ► Redirects from school articles ► Relocated schools ► School sex abuse scandals ► Training ships ► Schoolteachers ► School terminology ► School traditions ► School types ► Women's Leadership Schools ► School images ► School stubs ► Wikipedia categories named after schools ► WikiProject Schools Educational institutions by year of establishment edit   Lists List of schools by country List of international schools List of choir schools List of the oldest schools in the world List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom List of school-related attacks edit   Featured content Amador Valley High School · The Avery Coonley School · Baltimore City College · Eastbourne manslaughter · History of Baltimore City College · The Judd School · Plano Senior High School · School for Creative and Performing Arts · Stuyvesant High School List of Benet Academy alumni · List of Boston Latin School alumni · List of schools in the Cardenal Caro Province · List of schools in Marlborough, New Zealand · List of schools in the Northland Region · List of Old Guildfordians (Royal Grammar School, Guildford) edit   Related portals Education University Books Literature Library and information science Science Culture Society edit   Topics edit   Things you can do Join WikiProject Schools and add {{User WikiProject Schools}} to your talk page Place the project banner {{WPSchools}} on the talk pages of all articles within the scope of the project. 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