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A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually 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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The Free School is the oldest independent, inner-city alternative school in the United States. Founded by Mary Leue in 1969 based on the English Summerhill School philosophy, the free school lets students learn at their own pace. It has no grades, tests, or firm schedule: students design their own daily plans for learning. The school is self-governed through a weekly, democratic all-school meeting run by students in Robert's Rules. Students and staff alike receive one equal vote apiece. Unlike Summerhill-style schools, the Free School is a day school that serves predominantly working-class children. Nearly 80 percent of the school is eligible for reduced-price meals in the public schools. About 60 students between the ages of three and fourteen attend, and are staffed by six full-time teachers and a number of volunteers.

The school runs on a shoestring budget as a tradeoff for its financial independence and accessibility to low-income students. Tuition is billed on a sliding scale based on what parents can afford. Revenue from rental properties and fundraising supplements tuition income. The Free School started a high school program in 2006 that later spun off as the Harriet Tubman Democratic High School before closing in 2017. Journalists have likened the school's approach to unschooling and homeschooling, and its work to that of prefigurative politics. The Albany Free School is one of the few schools remaining from the 1960s and 1970s free school movement. It inspired the program of the Brooklyn Free School. (Full article...)

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Eton College, also known simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys, founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. It is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, and is one of the original nine English "public schools" as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. The school has a long list of distinguished former pupils, including eighteen former British Prime Ministers. Traditionally, Eton has been referred to as "the chief nurse of England's statesmen", and is often described as the most famous public school in the world.

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1887 – Teacher Anne Sullivan meets Helen Keller for the first time in Tuscumbia, Alabama.

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1887 – The first public secondary school in Thailand, Suankularb Wittayalai School, is established by King Chulalongkorn.

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1996 – The Dunblane massacre, a multiple murder-suicide in which sixteen children and one adult are killed, occurs at Dunblane Primary School in the Scottish town of Dunblane. It remains the deadliest single targeted mass homicide on children in the history of the United Kingdom.

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1937 – A natural gas leak causes an explosion, destroying the New London School of the city of New London, Texas. The disaster kills in excess of 295 students and teachers, making it the worst catastrophe to take place in a U.S. school building.

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Fatima Massaquoi-Fahnbulleh (/ˈmæsækwɑː/; 25 December 1911 – 26 November 1978) was a Liberian writer and academic. After completing her education in the United States, she returned to Liberia in 1946, making significant contributions to the cultural and social life of the country.

Born into a family of African royalty, Massaquoi grew up in the care of an aunt in Njagbacca, in the Garwula District of Grand Cape Mount County of southern Liberia. After seven years, she returned to the northwestern part of the country, Montserrado County, where she began her schooling. In 1922 she accompanied her father, a diplomat, to Hamburg, Germany, where she completed her school education and started a course in biology at the University of Hamburg. In 1937 she moved to the United States for further education, studying sociology and anthropology at Lane College, Fisk University and Boston University. While in the US, she collaborated on a dictionary of the Vai language and wrote her autobiography, though a legal battle ensued over the rights to her story. She won an injunction barring others from publishing it, and returned to Liberia in 1946, immediately beginning collaboration to establish a university there, which would become the University of Liberia. (Full article...)

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Image 1Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 2Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 3A high school in Milan in the 1920s (from History of education)
Image 4György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 5Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 6Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatoires (from Music school)
Image 7Literacy rates in Italy in 1861, shortly after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy. Italy lacks Lazio and the Triveneto, which were subsequently annexed. (from History of education)
Image 8The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 9Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 10Albert 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 11Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 12First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 13Loyola 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 14A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 15The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 16Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 17Pomona College (from College)
Image 18Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 19Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 20Established in 1224 by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, University of Naples Federico II in Italy is the world's oldest state-funded university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 21City College of New York (from College)
Image 22Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 23King'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 24Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 25The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 26Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 27Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 28Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 29RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 30Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 31SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 32Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 33A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 34Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 35St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 36Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 37Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 38University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 39To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 40Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 41One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 42Scripps College (from College)
Image 43Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 44The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 45King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 46Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 47Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 48Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 49Aristotle and his disciples – Alexander, Demetrius, Theophrastus, and Strato, in an 1888 fresco in the portico of the National University of Athens (from History of education)
Image 50Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 51Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 52Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 53Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 54A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 55Pazhassiraja College in Pulpally, Kerala, India (from College)
Image 56Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 57Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 58Istanbul University (1453) was founded by sultan Mehmed II as a Darülfünun. On 1 August 1933, as part of Atatürk's reforms, it was reorganized and became the Republic's first modern university. (from History of education)
Image 59A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 60Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy (from History of education)
Image 61Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 62West 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 63A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 64World 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 65A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 66Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 67Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 68Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 69St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 70A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)

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