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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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The Royal Grammar School (originally The Free School) is a selective English independent day school for boys in Guildford, Surrey. Its foundation dates to the death in 1509 of Robert Beckingham who left a provision in his will to "make a free scole at the Towne of Guldford"; in 1512 a governing body was set up to form the school. The school moved to the present site in the upper High Street after the granting of a royal charter from King Edward VI on 27 January 1553. The school became independent and fee paying on 1 September 1977, when the parents and staff raised sufficient funds to purchase it following concerns about the abolition of grammar schools and the introduction of comprehensive education. Initially the school educated 30 of the "poorest men's sons", however numbers have since grown to approximately 900 students, 300 of whom are in the sixth form.

Former pupils of the school are referred to as "Old Guildfordians" and are often referred to as "OGs" in official school correspondence. Since the school's founding, notable alumni have included the 75th Archbishop of Canterbury, Olympic athletes, the longest serving speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, several members of the parliament of the United Kingdom, a founding member of the East India Company and the 11th Premier of New Zealand. (Full article...)

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Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík or MR is the oldest gymnasium (Icelandic: Menntaskóli) in Reykjavík, Iceland. Many Icelandic politicians, including former Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson and the current President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, attended MR. Almost every Prime Minister of Iceland has been educated at the school apart from Halldór Ásgrímsson, Ólafur Jóhannesson and Þorsteinn Pálsson.

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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 Archdiocesan Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb, Croatia has an observatory (pictured) on school grounds?

... that the Power Memorial Academy basketball team, led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1964, was named "The #1 High School Team of The Century" by National Sports Writers?

... that the Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton, a chartered middle school that requires students to learn three years of Latin and to study Literary classics, has been recognized as a Blue Ribbon School?

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Carmen Casco de Lara Castro (17 June 1918 – 8 May 1993) was a Paraguayan teacher, women's and human rights advocate, and politician. She established one of the first independent human rights organizations in Latin America and fought for both women's equality and an end to state-sponsored terrorism under the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. She was influential in passing legislation for pay equity and maternity rights, as well as securing the repeal of laws curtailing basic human rights.

Born into an influential family, Casco was educated as a teacher and taught from the end of the 1930s to 1965. Having relatives sent into exile and witnessing the devastation of two wars, she was propelled into working to alleviate the suffering of those who were more marginalized than she. Initially she began working on issues involving women and political prisoners. When elected to serve on the 1967 Constitutional Assembly, she worked to have basic human rights added to the Paraguayan Constitution. One of the founders of the Commission for the Defense of Human Rights of Paraguay, she became its president and served in that capacity until her death. Unable to prosecute those who abused others' liberties, the organization focused on providing aid to victims but also compiled information on those who had been forcibly "disappeared". (Full article...)

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... that Ken Johannson became the captain of the University of North Dakota ice hockey team despite attending the school on a football scholarship?
... that the School for American Crafts recruited faculty from Denmark to teach metalsmithing and woodworking?
... that "The College Chimes" by American composer Daisy Wood Hildreth was chosen by the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts as their alumni song?
... that Edward D. Boone was the last surviving member of his 1851 graduating class from the College of the Holy Cross?
... that the radio station at Western Washington University interfered with telephone and television services in a campus dormitory?
... that Hans Haselböck, later an international concert organist and professor at the Vienna Music Academy, began 65 years as organist at the Dominican Church, Vienna, on 4 November 1949?
... that in 1919 Ethel Hampson Brewster compared dropping ancient history from school curricula to "knock[ing] out the first two stories of a skyscraper"?
... that social psychologist Lotte Bailyn, the first woman faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is an expert in work and family dynamics?

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

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