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A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually 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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Pomona College (/pəˈmoʊnə/ ^ⓘ pə-MOH-nə) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium of adjacent, affiliated institutions.

Pomona is a four-year undergraduate institution that enrolls approximately 0 students. It offers 48 majors in liberal arts disciplines and roughly 650 courses, as well as access to more than 2,000 additional courses at the other Claremont Colleges. Its 140-acre (57 ha) campus is in a residential community 35 miles (56 km) east of downtown Los Angeles, near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. (Full article...)

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Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts is the oldest continuously running incorporated boarding school in the United States. Among other notable alumni, Andover has educated two American Presidents, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, Law and Order creator Dick Wolf, four Medal of Honor recipients, inventor Samuel Morse, and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..

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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.

Ware was born in Clifton, Bristol, and graduated from the University of Paris in 1894. Several years after graduation, 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 Nick Kerbawy did not receive his college tennis championship trophy until 14 years after winning it?
... that as a college football player, Frank LeMaster changed from being a fullback to the starting halfback, to reserve halfback, to tight end, to linebacker, back to halfback and then linebacker again?
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... that the first women's dormitory built at Hampton University was partially paid for with money collected by the school's choir in tours led by Thomas P. Fenner?
... that Olympic gold medalist Dean Crawford was introduced to rowing when he found a rowing shell outside the students' union building at the University of Victoria?
... that both siblings of number-one NCAA Division I tennis player Fiona Crawley also played college tennis?
... that when East Wake Academy opened, its two main school buildings were located four miles (6 km) apart in separate towns?

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Image 1The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 2Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 3A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 4Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatoires (from Music school)
Image 5Aristotle and his disciples – Alexander, Demetrius, Theophrastus, and Strato, in an 1888 fresco in the portico of the National University of Athens (from History of education)
Image 6First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 7Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 8A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 9Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 10Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 11Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 12A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 13Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 14Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 15Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy (from History of education)
Image 16To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 17Pomona College (from College)
Image 18Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 19Scripps College (from College)
Image 20György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 21Literacy rates in Italy in 1861, shortly after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy. Italy lacks Lazio and the Triveneto, which were subsequently annexed. (from History of education)
Image 22Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 23West 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 24A high school in Milan in the 1920s (from History of education)
Image 25Loyola 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 26Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 27Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 28Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 29Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 30King'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 31Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 32Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 33University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 34SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 35Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 36Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 37Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 38A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 39The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 40St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 41Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 42The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 43One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 44Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 45Pazhassiraja College in Pulpally, Kerala, India (from College)
Image 46Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 47A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 48Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 49The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 50Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 51Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 52Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 53Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 54Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 55World 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 56A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 57King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 58Istanbul University (1453) was founded by sultan Mehmed II as a Darülfünun. On 1 August 1933, as part of Atatürk's reforms, it was reorganized and became the Republic's first modern university. (from History of education)
Image 59St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 60City College of New York (from College)
Image 61A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 62Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 63Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 64Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 65Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 66RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 67Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 68Established in 1224 by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, University of Naples Federico II in Italy is the world's oldest state-funded university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 69Albert 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 70Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)

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