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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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Benet Academy (/ˈbɛnɛt/ BEN-et) is a private, highly competitive, co-educational, college-preparatory, Benedictine high school in Lisle, Illinois, United States, overseen by the Diocese of Joliet. Founded in 1886, the school was initially established in Chicago as the all-boys St. Procopius College and Academy by Benedictine monks, who also operated the St. Joseph Bohemian Orphanage. In 1898, the orphanage moved to Lisle, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Chicago, to be joined by St. Procopius three years later. In 1926, Benedictine nuns constructed the all-girls Sacred Heart Academy near the orphanage and school in Lisle. The orphanage closed in 1956 to make room for St. Procopius Academy, which separated from the college in 1969. Due to rising costs and waning enrollment, Sacred Heart merged with St. Procopius Academy in 1967 to form Benet Academy on the St. Procopius campus. Since then, numerous building projects have been undertaken to expand Benet's athletics, music, and science programs.

Admission is competitive and relies on entrance exam scores, transcripts, and performance on standardized tests. All students complete a college-preparatory curriculum and may earn college credit through programs including Advanced Placement. As of 2023, Benet's average ACT test score regularly exceeds state and national averages, and more than 99 percent of students go on to college after graduation. The school's academic program has been featured in reports by the Chicago Sun-Times and U.S. News & World Report. (Full article...)

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Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík or MR is the oldest gymnasium (Icelandic: Menntaskóli) in Reykjavík, Iceland. Many Icelandic politicians, including former Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson and the current President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, attended MR. Almost every Prime Minister of Iceland has been educated at the school apart from Halldór Ásgrímsson, Ólafur Jóhannesson and Þorsteinn Pálsson.

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1823 – Raffles Institution, the oldest school in Singapore, is founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.

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1987 – In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania rules against the Dover Area School District, holding that teaching intelligent design in public school biology classes violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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1857 – Britain calls on the schoolboys of La Martiniere Lucknow to aid in the residency's defence during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Because of their contributions, La Martiniere Lucknow is the only school in the world to have been awarded royal battle honours

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Fatima Massaquoi-Fahnbulleh (/ˈmæsækwɑː/; 25 December 1911 – 26 November 1978) was a Liberian writer and academic. After completing her education in the United States, she returned to Liberia in 1946, making significant contributions to the cultural and social life of the country.

Born into a family of African royalty, Massaquoi grew up in the care of an aunt in Njagbacca, in the Garwula District of Grand Cape Mount County of southern Liberia. After seven years, she returned to the northwestern part of the country, Montserrado County, where she began her schooling. In 1922 she accompanied her father, a diplomat, to Hamburg, Germany, where she completed her school education and started a course in biology at the University of Hamburg. In 1937 she moved to the United States for further education, studying sociology and anthropology at Lane College, Fisk University and Boston University. While in the US, she collaborated on a dictionary of the Vai language and wrote her autobiography, though a legal battle ensued over the rights to her story. She won an injunction barring others from publishing it, and returned to Liberia in 1946, immediately beginning collaboration to establish a university there, which would become the University of Liberia. (Full article...)

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... the 2025 student elections at 15 constituent campuses of Tribhuvan University could not be held due to political conflicts between student organizations?
... that the solar panels of Canyon View High School provide shade from the Arizona heat and provide 20 percent of the school's energy?
... that Anthony F. Ciampi fought his superiors to rebuild the College of the Holy Cross after it was destroyed by fire in 1852?

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Image 1Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 2Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 3Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 4A high school in Milan in the 1920s (from History of education)
Image 5First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 6St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 7A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 8Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 9Pazhassiraja College in Pulpally, Kerala, India (from College)
Image 10Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 11Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 12Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 13Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 14The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 15Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 16Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 17Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 18Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 19Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 20Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 21Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 22The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 23A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 24World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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Image 25Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 26Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 27Scripps College (from College)
Image 28Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 29Established 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 30Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 31Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 32Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 33Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 34RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 35Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 36SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 37The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 38Loyola 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 39György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 40Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatoires (from Music school)
Image 41One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 42A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 43Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 44A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 45Pomona College (from College)
Image 46A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 47Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy (from History of education)
Image 48King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 49St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 50A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 51King'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 52Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 53Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 54The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 55Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 56Literacy 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 57Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 58Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 59Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 60City College of New York (from College)
Image 61Istanbul 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 62To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 63Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 64Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 65A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 66University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 67Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 68Aristotle 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 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)

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