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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 Scarborough Day School was a private school in Scarborough-on-Hudson, in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Frank and Narcissa Cox Vanderlip established the school in 1913 at their estate, Beechwood. The school, a nonsectarian nonprofit college preparatory day school, taught students at pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade levels and had small class sizes, with total enrollment rarely exceeding 150 students. Since 1980, the buildings and property have been owned by The Clear View School Day Treatment Center, which runs a day treatment program for 118 students. The current school still uses the Scarborough School's theater, which was opened in 1917. The school campus is a contributing property to the Scarborough Historic District.

The Scarborough Day School was accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York. The school also was a member of the Cum Laude Society and the National Association of Independent Schools. Its seal copies that of Scarborough, North Yorkshire; Scarborough-on-Hudson's namesake. (Full article...)

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The sun setting on Korean Minjok Leadership Academy

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Korean Minjok Leadership Academy (Korean: 민족사관고등학교, Hanja: 民族史觀高等學校), also known as KMLA or Minsago (민사고) for short, is a private high school located in the countryside of Gangwon-do, South Korea. In 2007, the Wall Street Journal listed KMLA as one of the best secondary schools in the world for gaining admission to top American universities.

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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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J. Hunter Guthrie in 1949

Joseph Hunter Guthrie SJ (January 8, 1901 – November 11, 1974) was an American academic philosopher, writer, Jesuit, and Catholic priest. Born in New York City, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1917, and began his studies at Woodstock College. Following his undergraduate and graduate work there, he taught at Jesuit institutions in the Philippines until 1927. Following his ordination in 1930, he received doctorates in theology and philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University and the University of Paris, respectively. He then returned to the United States, where he became a professor of philosophy at Woodstock College and Fordham University.

In 1943, Guthrie became the chairman of graduate philosophy at Georgetown University and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In this role, he admitted the first women to the school on equal terms as men. For twenty years, he promoted the belief that intellectuals must play a central role in combatting the ideologies that led to World War II. To that end, he was a member of the drafting committee of the UNESCO charter, was a co-founder of an American academy of Catholic intellectuals, and travelled the world with the U.S. State Department, for which he received honors from several countries and organizations. (Full article...)

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

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