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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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The Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney (PLC Sydney) is an independent Presbyterian single-sex early learning, primary and secondary day and boarding school for girls, located in Croydon, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school has a non-selective enrolment policy for all years except Year 11, and caters for approximately 1,250 girls from age four (Branxton Reception) to age eighteen (Year 12), including 65 boarders. Students attend PLC from all regions of the greater metropolitan area, New South Wales, and overseas.

Established in 1888 by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of NSW, PLC is the oldest continuously running Presbyterian Church school in its state. The college is a founding member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools and is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, the Junior School Heads Association of Australia, and the Australian Boarding Schools' Association. PLC is one of two Sydney schools in the Round Square organisation. (Full article...)

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Raffles Institution is an independent boys' secondary school in Singapore. Founded in 1823 as Singapore Institution by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, it was consistently ranked as one of the top secondary schools in Singapore in the now-defunct official school rankings released by the Ministry of Education. Notable alumni include Yusof bin Ishak and Benjamin Henry Sheares, the first and second Presidents of Singapore, respectively.

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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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Francis Xavier Talbot SJ (January 25, 1889 – December 3, 1953) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was active in Catholic literary and publishing circles, and became the President of Loyola College in Maryland. Born in Philadelphia, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1906, and was educated at St. Andrew-on-Hudson and Woodstock College. He taught for several years in New York City and at Boston College, before entering publishing as the literary editor of America magazine in 1923, of which he became the editor-in-chief in 1936. While in this role, he was also active in founding and editing several academic journals, including Thought, and establishing various Catholic literary societies and book clubs. During World War II, he was chaplain to a Catholic organization that previewed movies for the National Legion of Decency. He also supported Franco's rule in Spain because of its support of Catholicism and opposition to communism; he also supported the US war effort. He was described as one of the early leaders of the revival of Catholic literature in the United States.

In 1947, Talbot was named the President of Loyola College in Maryland. He held the office for three years and then was briefly an archivist at Georgetown University before becoming a priest and historian of St. Aloysius Church. He was then assigned to Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, where he died. (Full article...)

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

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