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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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A direct grant grammar school was a type of selective secondary school in the United Kingdom that existed between 1945 and 1976. One quarter of the places in these schools were directly funded by central government, while the remainder attracted fees, some paid by a Local Education Authority and some by the pupils' parents or guardians. On average, the schools received just over half of their income from the state.

The status was introduced in England and Wales by the Education Act 1944 as a modification of an existing direct grant scheme to some long standing endowed grammar schools. There were 179 direct grant grammar schools, which, together with almost 1,300 grammar schools maintained by local authorities, formed the most academic tier of the Tripartite System. They varied greatly in size and composition, but, on average, achieved higher academic results than either maintained grammar schools or private schools. (Full article...)

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The Lawrenceville School is a coeducational, independent preparatory boarding school for grades 9-12 located in the historic community of Lawrenceville, in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, U.S. As of June 30, 2006, its endowment was roughly $229 million, or nearly $290,000 per student. Its alumni range from Nobel laureate George Akerlof to former Disney CEO Michael Eisner.

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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 headmaster of Shardlow Hall (pictured), a school in Derbyshire, played soccer for England?

... that the International High School in Paterson, New Jersey, was built with triple-pane windows to keep out noise from Interstate 80, located just 20 feet (6 m) from the school building?

... that after 175 years in operation the Red Brick School, one of the oldest single room school houses in the U.S., closed in 2008?

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Banathy in 1998

Béla Heinrich Bánáthy (Hungarian: Bánáthy Béla; December 1, 1919 – September 4, 2003) was a Hungarian-American linguist, and Professor at San Jose State University and UC Berkeley. He is known as founder of the White Stag Leadership Development Program, established the International Systems Institute in 1982, and was co-founder of the General Evolutionary Research Group in 1984.

He grew up in largely rural Hungary and served in the Hungarian military during World War II. When Russia invaded Hungary in April 1945, he and his family fled to Allied-occupied Austria and lived in a displaced persons camp for six years. In 1951, they emigrated to Chicago, sponsored by the Presbyterian church. Within the year his former commanding officer suggested to the U.S. government that they hire Bánáthy as a Hungarian instructor at the Army Language School in Monterey, California. While living in Monterey, he founded the White Stag Leadership Development Program. (Full article...)

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... that as a senior in high school, manga artist Yama Wayama began drawing male–male romance manga as a hobby?
... that Isabel Leighton, an actress and writer, created a chair in hematology at Yale University in honor of her husband?
... that students participating in the 1968–69 Japanese university protests were known for ruthlessly interrogating and verbally abusing professors, sometimes for days on end?
... that when Bill Renwick was asked to review a neo-Nazi case at the University of Waikato it was meant to take three weeks, but instead took nearly two years?
... that John Rudzinski, defensive coordinator for the Air Force Falcons, coached high school football while stationed at Charleston Air Force Base?
... that a 16-year-old high-school student reverse-engineered iMessage to let Android users text iPhone users with blue chat bubbles using the Beeper Mini app?
... that Diamond Miller is the all-time leading scorer on her high-school basketball team – a record previously held by her sister?
... that Alfred de Laage de Meux received the rank of brevet without completing aviation school?

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

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