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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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North Community High School, or simply North, is a four-year public comprehensive high school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school has existed for over 120 years in several buildings all located on the city's northside. Minneapolis North once had a predominantly Jewish student body but by 1982, the school and the neighborhood it is located in had become mostly African American. Desegregation efforts, such as magnet school programs, have attempted to attract students from throughout Minneapolis and nearby suburbs. KBEM-FM, established by Minneapolis Public Schools in 1970, is operated partially by North students and has been located at the school since 1985. (Full article...)

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National Tainan First Senior High School (Chinese: 國立臺南第一高級中學) is a public senior high school in Tainan City, Taiwan. The school was established in 1922 and is often considered one of the most prestigious secondary schools in southern Taiwan. Alumni include former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, director Ang Lee, and head of the Legislative Yuan Wang Jin-pyng.

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1999 – Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold embarks on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School, killing 12 students and a teacher, as well as wounding 23 others, before committing suicide. It is the fourth-deadliest school killing in United States history.

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1635 – Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the United States, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts

2003 – Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.

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1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he reads a letter in which she expresses fears about nuclear war.

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...that Roseland Christian School (pictured) changed from a completely Dutch-American student body in 1884 to a completely African American one by the mid 1980s?

... that E.S. Richardson Elementary School is named after a Louisiana educator, who ended his career as an administrator of the wartime Office of Price Administration?

... that Evergreen Lutheran High School lost its lease in DuPont, Washington in 1988 and has been looking for another site while sharing land at a local church?

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Marion Luther Brittain Sr. (November 11, 1866 – July 13, 1953) was an American academic administrator and longest serving president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1922 to 1944. Brittain was born in Georgia and, aside from a brief stint at the University of Chicago for graduate school, spent most of his life serving the educational community there. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory College in 1886, Brittain worked his way up the ranks from principal of an Atlanta high school to superintendent of education for the entire state of Georgia.

In 1922, Brittain accepted the position of president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, then called the Georgia School of Technology, an office he would hold until his retirement in 1944. During his 22-year tenure at Georgia Tech, Brittain was credited with doubling student enrollment, establishing what is now the second-largest aerospace engineering faculty in the United States, and playing an influential role in securing Georgia Tech's position as a leading technical institute and research university. After his retirement, Brittain wrote The Story of Georgia Tech (1948), a history of the Institute published shortly before his death in 1953. (Full article...)

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... that Sunday-school classes were once held in the transmitter building of New Mexico radio station KCLV?
... that Nancy Nash had to convince her parents to let her not attend the University of Texas to instead become an actress in 1926?
... that the day before William J. McGarry was set to leave for the Pontifical Biblical Institute, he was instead appointed a professor at Weston College?
... that in college, American football player Jarrett Kingston started at the position of left guard, then moved to left tackle, and then played right tackle and right guard?
... that J. Michael Miller, the archbishop of Vancouver, who turns 76 today, starred in a high school production of Our Town opposite Mary Lou Finlay?
... that in 1951, the University of Arizona radio bureau produced four different programs that aired on four different Tucson stations?
... that as president of Loyola College in Maryland, John F. Quirk became close friends with the cardinal who ordained him a priest ten years earlier?
... that while he was a teacher in France, George Buchanan wrote a school play about Jephthah's sacrifice of his daughter?

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Image 1World 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
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- 0.600–0.649
- 0.550–0.599
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(from History of education)
Image 2Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 3Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 4The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 5Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 6The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 7Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 8Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 9György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 10Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatoires (from Music school)
Image 11Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 12Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 13Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 14Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy (from History of education)
Image 15To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 16King'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 17A high school in Milan in the 1920s (from History of education)
Image 18Scripps College (from College)
Image 19A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 20City College of New York (from College)
Image 21Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 22Literacy 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 23A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 24Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 25RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 26St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 27Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 28Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 29Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 30King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 31Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 32Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 33West 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 34SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 35Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 36Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 37Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 38A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 39Pomona College (from College)
Image 40Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 41Pazhassiraja College in Pulpally, Kerala, India (from College)
Image 42Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 43The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 44Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 45Established 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 46Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 47One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 48A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 49First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 50Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 51Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 52Loyola 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 53Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 54Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 55A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 56Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 57Istanbul 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 58Albert 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 59Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 60Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 61Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 62Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 63Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 64St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 65Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 66Aristotle 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 67The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 68University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 69A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 70A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)

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