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A school is an 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 organizations. 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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Boston Latin School is a public exam school located in Boston, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1635. It is the first public school and the oldest existing school in the United States.

The school's first class included nine students; the school now has 2,400 pupils drawn from all parts of Boston. Its graduates have included four Harvard presidents, eight Massachusetts state governors, and five signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, as well as several preeminent architects, a leading art historian, a notable naturalist and the conductors of the New York Philharmonic and Boston Pops orchestras. There are also several notable non-graduate alumni, including Louis Farrakhan, a leader of the Nation of Islam. Boston Latin admitted only male students at its founding in 1635. The school's first female student was admitted in the nineteenth century. In 1972, Boston Latin admitted its first co-educational class. (Full article...)

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Gordonstoun is a Scottish co-educational independent school famed for having educated three generations of British royalty. Founded as an international school in 1934 by the German educator Dr. Kurt Hahn, it is best-known as the school attended during the 1960s by Charles, King of the United Kingdom, on the recommendation of his father, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who had himself been one of the first students to attend Gordonstoun.

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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 Bolhrad High School (pictured) in Bolhrad, Ukraine, was founded by the Bessarabian Bulgarian diaspora as the first high school of the Bulgarian National Revival period?
... that the now defunct Heritage Christian School in Hillsboro, Oregon, once held a chariot race?
... that despite being located in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Assumption Preparatory School followed French custom in holding classes on Saturday mornings but not on Thursday or Saturday afternoons?

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Joseph Havens Richards SJ (born Havens Cowles Richards; November 8, 1851 – June 9, 1923) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who became a prominent president of Georgetown University, where he instituted major reforms and significantly enhanced the quality and stature of the university. Richards was born to a prominent Ohio family; his father was an Episcopal priest who controversially converted to Catholicism and had the infant Richards secretly baptized as a Catholic.

Richards became the president of Georgetown University in 1888 and undertook significant construction, such as the completion of Healy Hall, which included work on Gaston Hall and Riggs Library, and the building of Dahlgren Chapel. Richards sought to transform Georgetown into a modern, comprehensive university. To that end, he bolstered the graduate programs, expanded the School of Medicine and Law School, established the Georgetown University Hospital, improved the astronomical observatory, and recruited prominent faculty. He also navigated tensions with the newly established Catholic University of America, which was located in the same city. Richards fought anti-Catholic discrimination by Ivy League universities, resulting in Harvard Law School admitting graduates of some Jesuit universities. (Full article...)

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... that American football player Ralph "Catfish" Smith was a two-way player in college and in the National Football League?
... that Wes Carlson used a different last name than his father because of a schoolteacher's mistake?
... that Jäñgir-Kerei Khan was responsible for establishing the first school, settlement, hospital, and museum in the Bukey Horde?
... that the Big Stone County Museum preserves a historic octagonal one-room schoolhouse?
... that the University of Maryland's Iribe Center was partly funded by a businessman who dropped out of the university?
... that ballet choreographer Cameron Fraser-Monroe applied to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School on a whim and received a scholarship?
... that professor Ruth Ann Davis made the largest-ever single contribution to Potomac State College of West Virginia University to support nursing scholarships in memory of her mother?
... that Mary Robertson was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Science degree in medicine from the University of Cape Town?

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

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