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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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Benet Academy (often shortened to "Benet") is a co-educational, college-preparatory Benedictine high school in Lisle, Illinois, United States, overseen by the Diocese of Joliet. Since its founding in 1888, notable alumni have included Olympic athletes, professional American football players, winners of Grammy and Academy Awards, singer David Bickler from Survivor, and a former Illinois Attorney General.

An alumni directory compiled in 1937 reveals that older alumni have included members of the clergy, businessmen, physicians, educators, attorneys, musicians, and journalists. For the 2010–11 school year, 1,333 students were enrolled at Benet. (Full article...)

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Harrow School is a public school for boys located in Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex, England. It is one of the original nine English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. Harrow has many notable alumni, who are known as Old Harrovians, including seven former British Prime Ministers (including Winston Churchill and Robert Peel), and the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. In addition, nineteen Old Harrovians have been awarded the Victoria Cross.

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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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Major-General Sir Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware KCVO KBE CB CMG (17 June 1869 – 28 April 1949) was a British educator, journalist, and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC), now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). He also served as Director of Education for the Transvaal Colony and editor of The Morning Post.

Born in Clifton, Bristol, he graduated from the University of Paris in 1894. After working in various education capacities, he travelled to the Transvaal Colony where, as a member of Milner's Kindergarten, he became Director of Education in 1903. Two years later, Ware became editor of The Morning Post and returned to England. While editor, he expanded the paper and reoriented it to focus on colonial affairs. After several controversies, culminating in a failed effort to purchase an airship for the United Kingdom, Ware was forced to retire in 1911. (Full article...)

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... that Jean Walton stopped the Pomona College football team from forcibly weighing and measuring the proportions of first-year women?
... that even though Charles P. Adams meant to hire someone else, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones remained at Grambling State University for 51 years?
... that Georgia's racketeering law has been used to prosecute an assisted-suicide group, schoolteachers in a cheating scandal, a fake dentist, and Donald Trump?
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... that after playing American football for three different high schools, Matt Landers played for three different colleges?
... that Catechumen, a Christian first-person shooter, was funded only in the aftermath of the Columbine High School massacre?
... that Annie Dove Denmark was offered residency on campus for the rest of her life after resigning as the president of Anderson College?

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Image 1Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 2Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 3A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 4To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 5A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 6A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 7Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 8Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 9A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 10The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 11Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 12The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 13Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 14Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 15Loyola 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 16Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 17RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 18A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 19Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 20Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 21World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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Image 22Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 23Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 24Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 25Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 26The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 27Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 28One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 29Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 30City College of New York (from College)
Image 31First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 32King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 33Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 34The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 35Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 36Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 37A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 38Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 39Albert 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 40Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 41SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 42Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 43Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 44Scripps College (from College)
Image 45King'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 46György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 47Pomona College (from College)
Image 48Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 49West 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 50Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 51Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 52The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 53Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 54Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 55St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 56St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 57Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)

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