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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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Stonyhurst College is a co-educational Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition, on the Stonyhurst Estate, Lancashire, England. It occupies a Grade I listed building. The school has been fully co-educational since 1999.

A precursor institution of the college was founded in 1593 by Father Robert Persons SJ at St Omer, at a time when penal laws prohibited Roman Catholic education in England. After moving to Bruges in 1762 and Liège in 1773, the college was headed for oblivion, but for the generosity of an old boy, Thomas Weld (of Lulworth), who intervened. Weld's enormous benefaction enabled the expatriated school to establish itself on English soil in 1794 when it was granted the Stonyhurst estate. It provides boarding and day education to approximately 450 boys and girls aged 13–18. On an adjacent site, its preparatory school, St Mary's Hall, provides education for boys and girls aged 3–13. (Full article...)

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Bergen katedralskole (English: Bergen Cathedral School, Latin: Schola Cathedralis Bergensis, colloquially known as Katten) is an upper secondary school in Bergen, Norway. The school is thought to have been founded in 1153 by Nicholas Breakspear (later Pope Adrian IV). The school has a reputation as a prestigious school, because of its history and high grade requirements. Its alumni includes Frederik Stang, Norway's first prime minister.

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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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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided as president or leader for a myriad of African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Division.

She also was appointed as a national advisor to president Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom she worked with to create the Federal Council on Colored Affairs, also known as the Black Cabinet. She is well-known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. It later continued to develop as Bethune-Cookman University. She was the sole African American woman officially a part of the US delegation that created the United Nations charter, and she held a leadership position for the American Women's Voluntary Services founded by Alice Throckmorton McLean. For her lifetime of activism, she was deemed "acknowledged First Lady of Negro America" by Ebony magazine in April 1949 and was known by the Black Press as the "Female Booker T. Washington". She was known as "The First Lady of The Struggle" because of her commitment to promote better lives for African Americans. (Full article...)

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Image 1Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 2Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 3SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 4To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 5Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 6First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (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 8A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 9Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 10A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 11Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 12A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 13West 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 14A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 15Scripps College (from College)
Image 16A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 17The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 18King'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 19Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 20Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 21Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 22Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 23The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 24Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 25Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 26One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 27City College of New York (from College)
Image 28Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 29Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 30Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 31The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 32Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 33Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 34Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 35Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 36The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 37Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 38Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 39St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 40Loyola 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 41Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 42Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 43Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 44St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 45Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 46Albert 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 47Pomona College (from College)
Image 48Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 49Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 50The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 51World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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- 0.900–0.949
- 0.850–0.899
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- 0.750–0.799
- 0.700–0.749
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- under 0.350
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(from History of education)
Image 52Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 53Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 54György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 55Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 56A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 57RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)

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