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A school is an educational institution 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. 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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Carlton le Willows Academy is an 11–18 mixed, secondary school and sixth form with academy status in Gedling, Nottinghamshire, England. It is part of the Greater Nottingham Education Trust.

Recruiting its first pupils in 1953, on-site teaching was introduced in the following year and the school was officially opened in 1956. Consequently, the modern school speculates Carlton le Willows to have been founded as the first post-war grammar school in England. Its campus was split from 1962 when a separate secondary technical school, Carlton le Willows Technical Grammar School, was established. The schools unified in 1973 and converted to a single comprehensive school; two local secondary modern schools, both founded in the early 20th-century, were also implicated in the merger. Carlton le Willows was granted specialist Technology College status from 2002 until 2010, became a foundation school in 2007 and converted into an academy in 2011. (Full article...)

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Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts is the oldest continuously running incorporated boarding school in the United States. Among other notable alumni, Andover has educated two American Presidents, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, Law and Order creator Dick Wolf, four Medal of Honor recipients, inventor Samuel Morse, and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..

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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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... that City Academy High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota, became the first charter school in the U.S. when it opened its doors to 30 students on September 7, 1992?

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Francis Xavier Talbot SJ (January 25, 1889 – December 3, 1953) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was active in Catholic literary and publishing circles, and became the President of Loyola College in Maryland. Born in Philadelphia, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1906, and was educated at St. Andrew-on-Hudson and Woodstock College. He taught for several years in New York City and at Boston College, before entering publishing as the literary editor of America magazine in 1923, of which he became the editor-in-chief in 1936. While in this role, he was also active in founding and editing several academic journals, including Thought, and establishing various Catholic literary societies and book clubs. During World War II, he was chaplain to a Catholic organization that previewed movies for the National Legion of Decency. He also supported Franco's rule in Spain because of its support of Catholicism and opposition to communism; he also supported the US war effort. He was described as one of the early leaders of the revival of Catholic literature in the United States.

In 1947, Talbot was named the President of Loyola College in Maryland. He held the office for three years and then was briefly an archivist at Georgetown University before becoming a priest and historian of St. Aloysius Church. He was then assigned to Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, where he died. (Full article...)

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... that Michigan defensive end Eyabi Okie, ranked number 3 in the 2018 college football recruiting class, changed his surname from "Anoma" to recognize his mother who lives in Africa?
... that Vikki Blanche did not take her Neighbours audition seriously, thinking that she would not be cast so soon after graduating from school?
... that the Royal Dental Hospital opened the first dental school in Britain in 1859?
... that Albuquerque radio station KRZY broadcast a college football game without permission by smuggling in gear under blankets and disguising an announcer in the opposing team's student section?
... that Rhythm Is It! is a 2004 documentary film about 250 public school students trained by Royston Maldoom to dance Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps with the Berlin Philharmonic?
... that a recent New York Times article recommended four educational charities: Catherine Omanyo's school, Children International, Khan Academy and the Wikimedia Foundation?
... that the American Schools at War program raised over $2 billion (over $28 billion today) to help pay for World War II?
... that station staff had to throw snowballs to knock the ice off the aging transmitter of radio station KWCR-FM at Weber State University in Utah?

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

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