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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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R v Hopley (more commonly known as the Eastbourne manslaughter) was an 1860 legal case in Eastbourne, Sussex, England. The case concerned the death of 15-year-old Reginald Cancellor (some sources give his name as Chancellor and his age as 13 or 14) at the hands of his teacher, Thomas Hopley. Hopley used corporal punishment with the stated intention of overcoming what he perceived as stubbornness on Cancellor's part, but instead beat the boy to death.

An inquest into Cancellor's death began when his brother requested an autopsy. As a result of the inquest Hopley was arrested and charged with manslaughter. He was found guilty at trial and sentenced to four years in prison, although he insisted that his actions were justifiable and that he was not guilty of any crime. The trial was sensationalised by the Victorian press and incited debate over the use of corporal punishment in schools. After Hopley's release and subsequent divorce trial, he largely disappeared from the public record. The case became an important legal precedent in the United Kingdom for discussions of corporal punishment in schools and reasonable limits on discipline. (Full article...)

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The Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney (PLC Sydney) is an independent, Presbyterian, day and boarding school for girls in Croydon, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, Australia. Alumni include Sibyl Morrison, the first female barrister in New South Wales, Marie Byles, the first practicing female solicitor in New South Wales, and Florence Mary Taylor, the first qualified female architect and first woman to train as an engineer in Australia.

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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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Carmen Casco de Lara Castro (17 June 1918 – 8 May 1993) was a Paraguayan teacher, women's and human rights advocate, and politician. She established one of the first independent human rights organizations in Latin America and fought for both women's equality and an end to state-sponsored terrorism under the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. She was influential in passing legislation for pay equity and maternity rights, as well as securing the repeal of laws curtailing basic human rights.

Born into an influential family, Casco was educated as a teacher and taught from the end of the 1930s to 1965. Having relatives sent into exile and witnessing the devastation of two wars, she was propelled into working to alleviate the suffering of those who were more marginalized than she. Initially she began working on issues involving women and political prisoners. When elected to serve on the 1967 Constitutional Assembly, she worked to have basic human rights added to the Paraguayan Constitution. One of the founders of the Commission for the Defense of Human Rights of Paraguay, she became its president and served in that capacity until her death. Unable to prosecute those who abused others' liberties, the organization focused on providing aid to victims but also compiled information on those who had been forcibly "disappeared". (Full article...)

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

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