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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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Melbourne High School is a selective state school for boys in years 9 to 12 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is currently ranked the second highest scoring school in Victoria, and the highest available for boys. Its sister school for girls is the Mac.Robertson Girls' High School. Alumni range from Sir John Eccles, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, to Nick Green, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in rowing.

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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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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 prominent Florida State University benefactor Ruby Diamond had the middle name Pearl?
... that Dianna Agron auditioned for Glee using a high voice because she interpreted her character as a perfectionist who would not want a deep voice, something for which Agron had been teased at school?
... that American president Calvin Coolidge wrote his statement "I do not choose to run" at Rapid City High School?
... that the veto of an Indiana law that bans transgender girls from participating in school sports was overridden by the state legislature?
... that Alena Analeigh Wicker is the youngest Black person to be accepted into medical school in the United States and the youngest person to work as an intern at NASA?
... that in 2014, Trinidadian sprinter Deon Lendore won the highest award in National Collegiate Athletic Association track and field while at Texas A&M University?
... that Diamond Miller is the all-time leading scorer on her high-school basketball team – a record previously held by her sister?
... that Fumiya Takahashi was referred to as "the most handsome high schooler in Japan"?

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

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