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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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Stonyhurst College is a co-educational Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition, on the Stonyhurst Estate, Lancashire, England. It occupies a Grade I listed building. The school has been fully co-educational since 1999.

A precursor institution of the college was founded in 1593 by Father Robert Persons SJ at St Omer, at a time when penal laws prohibited Roman Catholic education in England. After moving to Bruges in 1762 and Liège in 1773, the college was headed for oblivion, but for the generosity of an old boy, Thomas Weld (of Lulworth), who intervened. Weld's enormous benefaction enabled the expatriated school to establish itself on English soil in 1794 when it was granted the Stonyhurst estate. It provides boarding and day education to approximately 450 boys and girls aged 13–18. On an adjacent site, its preparatory school, St Mary's Hall, provides education for boys and girls aged 3–13. (Full article...)

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The Lawrenceville School is a coeducational, independent preparatory boarding school for grades 9-12 located in the historic community of Lawrenceville, in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, U.S. As of June 30, 2006, its endowment was roughly $229 million, or nearly $290,000 per student. Its alumni range from Nobel laureate George Akerlof to former Disney CEO Michael Eisner.

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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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... that the Liberty Colored High School (pictured), built to replace a Rosenwald school for African-American students in Liberty, South Carolina, is now the Rosenwood community center?
... that Konawaena High School's 18th place finish in the 1990 World Solar Challenge was the basis for the 1996 film Race the Sun?
... that the 2009 film Heart of Stone is the story of Weequahic High School beset by gangs, and its principal working with Black and Jewish alumni and gang members to restore its glory prior to 1960?

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Brittain from The 1944 Blue Print

Marion Luther Brittain Sr. (November 11, 1866 – July 13, 1953) was an American academic administrator and longest serving president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1922 to 1944. Brittain was born in Georgia and, aside from a brief stint at the University of Chicago for graduate school, spent most of his life serving the educational community there. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory College in 1886, Brittain worked his way up the ranks from principal of an Atlanta high school to superintendent of education for the entire state of Georgia.

In 1922, Brittain accepted the position of president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, then called the Georgia School of Technology, an office he would hold until his retirement in 1944. During his 22-year tenure at Georgia Tech, Brittain was credited with doubling student enrollment, establishing what is now the second-largest aerospace engineering faculty in the United States, and playing an influential role in securing Georgia Tech's position as a leading technical institute and research university. After his retirement, Brittain wrote The Story of Georgia Tech (1948), a history of the Institute published shortly before his death in 1953. (Full article...)

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... that Jaleel McLaughlin went from being homeless to being college football's all-time leading rusher?
... that Centre's 1921 defeat of Harvard is widely considered to be one of the greatest upsets in college football history?
... that students at Pomona College are traditionally thrown into a fountain on their birthday?
... that Tucker Hall and Ewell Hall sit on either side of the Sunken Garden on the College of William & Mary's campus?
... that while at high school, Johann Georg Seidenbusch declared to Our Lady: "ad carissimam Sponsam te eligo" (I choose thee as my dearest Bride)?
... that college basketball player Jett Howard almost signed at Tennessee, but instead chose the Michigan team of his father Juwan Howard?
... that when George Ross went bankrupt in 1867, his wife Sibella Ross started a school to sustain their large family?
... that an FBI investigation contributed to the cancellation of the Kentucky Derby Festival Basketball Classic, which had been the longest-running U.S. high school all-star basketball game?

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Image 1Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 2The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 3A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 4Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 5Scripps College (from College)
Image 6Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 7Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 8King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 9West 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 10One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 11A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 12Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 13St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 14First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 15Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 16György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 17A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 18City College of New York (from College)
Image 19Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 20St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 21SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 22The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 23The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 24Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 25Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 26Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 27A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 28Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 29Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 30The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 31Pomona College (from College)
Image 32RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 33Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 34Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 35A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 36Loyola 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 37World 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 38The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 39Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 40Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 41Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 42Albert 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 43Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 44Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 45King'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 46To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 47Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 48Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 49Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 50Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 51Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 52Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 53A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 54Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 55Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 56Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 57Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)

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