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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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Stuyvesant High School (pronounced /ˈstaɪvəsənt/), commonly referred to among its students as Stuy (pronounced /staɪ/), is a public college-preparatory, specialized high school in New York City, United States. Operated by the New York City Department of Education, these specialized schools offer tuition-free accelerated academics to city residents.

Stuyvesant was established as an all-boys school in the East Village of Manhattan in 1904. An entrance examination was mandated for all applicants starting in 1934, and the school started accepting female students in 1969. Stuyvesant moved to its current location at Battery Park City in 1992 because the student body had become too large to be suitably accommodated in the original campus. The old building now houses several high schools. (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 Mather School (pictured) in Dorchester, Massachusetts, is the oldest free public elementary school in North America?

...that Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida is only one of two schools left in the United States named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan?

...that the First Tokyo Middle School, one of the top public secondary schools in Japan, expelled all of its Korean international students in 1905 when they demonstrated against the Eulsa Treaty between Japan and Korea?

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Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1949

Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided as president or leader for a myriad of African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Division.

She also was appointed as a national advisor to president Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom she worked with to create the Federal Council on Colored Affairs, also known as the Black Cabinet. She is well-known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. It later continued to develop as Bethune-Cookman University. She was the sole African American woman officially a part of the US delegation that created the United Nations charter, and she held a leadership position for the American Women's Voluntary Services founded by Alice Throckmorton McLean. For her lifetime of activism, she was deemed "acknowledged First Lady of Negro America" by Ebony magazine in April 1949 and was known by the Black Press as the "Female Booker T. Washington". She was known as "The First Lady of The Struggle" because of her commitment to promote better lives for African Americans. (Full article...)

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... that Saudi Arabian historian Sa'd ibn Junaydil took high school graduation exams with his students, as he had yet to obtain a high school diploma?
... that the Acoustic Atlas at Montana State University Library helped to create a public domain archive of sounds from Yellowstone National Park?
... that William Lambdin Prather introduced the phrase "the eyes of Texas are upon you", which was incorporated into the school song of the University of Texas at Austin?
... that the only functioning secondary school in Mississippi during the American Civil War was founded by Thomas S. Gathright?
... that according to Ron Howard, his high school classmates teased him by whistling "The Andy Griffith Show Theme"?
... that James McChord is considered to be the first president of Centre College despite dying before officially taking up the role?
... that after Keri Blakinger left Cornell University to serve time in prison for possession of heroin, she returned to finish her degree and then became a criminal justice reporter?
... that despite having never played college football, Henry Bell was able to make the roster of the NFL's Denver Broncos and served as one of the team's starting running backs in their inaugural season?

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Image 1Scripps College (from College)
Image 2Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 3The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 4Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 5Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 6Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 7Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 8Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 9Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 10Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 11Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 12The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 13Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 14Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 15Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 16A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 17Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 18Pomona College (from College)
Image 19West 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 20World 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
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- 0.350–0.399
- under 0.350
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(from History of education)
Image 21St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 22First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 23Loyola 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 24Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 25Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 26Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 27St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 28Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 29Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 30Albert 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 31György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 32Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 33SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 34A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 35A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 36King'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 37One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 38The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 39A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 40A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 41Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 42Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 43Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 44To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 45Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 46King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 47Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 48Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 49Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 50Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 51RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 52Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 53The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 54A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 55Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 56City College of New York (from College)
Image 57The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)

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