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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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Barnard Castle School (colloquially Barney School or locally the County School) is a co-educational private day and boarding school in the market town of Barnard Castle, County Durham, in the North East of England. It is a member of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). It was founded in 1883 with funding from a 13th-century endowment of John I de Balliol and the bequest of the local industrialist Benjamin Flounders. The ambition was to create a school of the quality of the ancient public schools at a more reasonable cost, whilst accepting pupils regardless of their faith.

Originally the North Eastern County School, the name was changed in 1924, but is still generally known locally as the "County School". The school is set in its own 50-acre (20 ha) grounds in Teesdale, within the North Pennines, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. An on-site prep school caters for pupils aged 4 to 11, while the senior school caters for pupils aged 11 to 18. The school was previously funded by direct grant. Founded as an all-boys school, it has been fully co-educational since 1993. There are around 660 pupils and some 200 members of staff. (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

17th

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 Nebraska School for the Deaf became nationally known within the Deaf community for its fight against an anti-American Sign Language state bill endorsed by Alexander Graham Bell?

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Zay, portrait produced for the 50th anniversary of the Adele Zay School 1884–1935, Kronstadt, Romania

Adele Zay (29 February 1848 – 29 December 1928) was a Transylvanian teacher, feminist and pedagogue. Her family were part of the German-speaking community of the Kingdom of Hungary. Because of her father's death during her infancy, Zay's education was interrupted by periods where she taught to earn money in order to continue private and formal studies. In 1880 after studying abroad in Vienna and Gotha, she passed her primary education certification for Germany and Hungary. The following year, she was certified as a secondary teacher, becoming the first Transylvanian woman to have earned a higher education. From 1875 to 1884, she taught at the Institute of Irma Keméndy in Szeged.

After almost a decade in Szeged, Zay accepted a post at a newly established normal school for training kindergarten teachers in Kronstadt (Brassó). Though ostensibly a teacher, from the beginning Zay was the creative force behind the development of the school and designed the syllabus. She led the school from 1884 to 1927, becoming its official director in 1922. Simultaneously with her relocation to Kronstadt, Zay joined the General Women's Association of the Transylvanian Evangelical Church and became one of the leaders in pressing for women's rights. She successfully agitated for kindergarten and handicraft teachers to be recognized as educators and entitled to pensions. She lobbied for the teaching profession to be opened to women, which was accomplished in 1901, and for a women's normal school to be established, which occurred in 1903. (Full article...)

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... that Centre College hosted two vice-presidential debates during John A. Roush's presidency?

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

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