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Aschoolis both theeducational institutionandbuildingdesigned to providelearning spacesandlearning environmentsfor theteachingofstudentsunder the direction ofteachers.Most countries have systems of formaleducation,which is sometimescompulsory.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 theRegional termssection below) but generally includeprimary schoolfor young children andsecondary schoolfor teenagers who have completedprimary education.An institution wherehigher educationis taught is commonly called auniversity collegeoruniversity.

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.Kindergartenorpreschoolprovide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University,vocational school,collegeorseminarymay be available after secondary school. A school may be dedicated to one particular field, such as a school of economics or dance.Alternative schoolsmay provide nontraditional curriculum and methods. (Full article...)

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Caulfield Grammar Schoolis aprivate,co-educational,Anglican,International Baccalaureate,dayandboarding school,located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1881 as a boys' school, Caulfield Grammar began admitting girls exactly one hundred years later. The school amalgamated withMalvern Memorial Grammar School(MMGS) in 1961, with the MMGS campus becoming Malvern Campus.

Caulfield Grammar has three-day campuses in Victoria,Caulfield(Years 7–12),Wheelers Hill(Kindergarten–Year 12), andMalvern House(Kindergarten–Year 6). It has an outdoor education campus atYarra Junction,and a student centre inNanjing,China where the Year 9 internationalism programme is conducted. Caulfield Grammar is the only Melbourne-based APS school to provideboardingfor both boys and girls, with 95 boarding students, and is the second largest school in Victoria, currently catering for 3,315 students. (Full article...)

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TheUniversity of Wrocławis a public research university located inWrocław, Poland.It was founded in 1945, replacing the previous German University of Breslau. Following the territorial changes of Poland's borders, academics restored the university building on the banks of theOderriver, which was heavily damaged and split as a result of theBattle of Breslau(1945). Nowadays, it is one of the most prominent educational institutions in the region.

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1922 –Institut Le Rosey's first alumni association, the "Old Rosey Association," is created inSwitzerland

1925 – In theScopes Trial,the Criminal Court of Tennessee upholds the Bulter Act, which made it unlawful, in any state-funded educational establishment inTennessee,"to teach any theory that denies the story of theDivine Creationof man as taught in theBible,and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals. "The case was a watershed in thecreation-evolution controversy.

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1988 – TheEducation Reform Act of 1988is introduced intoEngland,WalesandNorthern Ireland,ensuring that state schools of allLocal Education Authoritieshave a common curriculum.

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1881 – Permission is received fromHer Majesty Queen Victoriato renameColombo Academy and Queens CollegeinSri LankatoRoyal College, Colombo

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... thatKellom Elementary SchoolinOmaha,Nebraskais the alma mater ofFred Astaire,Gale SayersandBob Gibson,as well as youth programs once led byWhitney Young?

... that since 2002,New York'sMiddletown High Schoolhas seen the district superintendent convicted ofsexual abuse,had oneprincipalresign and another suspended, had two studentwalkoutsand was ordered to reinstate a teacher?

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Mary Carpenter(3 April 1807 – 14 June 1877) was an English educational andsocial reformer.The daughter of aUnitarian minister,she founded aragged schoolandreformatories,bringing previously unavailable educational opportunities to poor children and young offenders inBristol.

She published articles and books on her work and her lobbying was instrumental in the passage of several educational acts in the mid-nineteenth century. She was the first woman to have a paper published by theStatistical Society of London.She addressed many conferences and meetings and became known as one of the foremost public speakers of her time. Carpenter was active in theanti-slavery movement;she also visited India, visiting schools and prisons and working to improvefemale education,establish reformatory schools and improve prison conditions. In later years she visited Europe and America, carrying on her campaigns of penal and educational reform. (Full article...)

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... thatGlen Cove City School Districtclosed the South School in 1966 to remedy allegedde factosegregationin the district?
... that in college,American footballplayerJarrett Kingstonstarted at the position ofleft guard,then moved toleft tackle,and then playedright tackleandright guard?
... thatcollege debates in the United Stateswere originally conducted entirely inLatin?
... thatVivian Smithwas the first black student to earn a bachelor's degree in English from theUniversity of Northern Iowa?
... that WelshfootballerJon Morganwent on to become a college principal after retiring?
... thatLord Stonehaven,Governor-General of Australia,calledHay War Memorial High Schoolthe "finest war memorial in theBritish Empire"?
... thatJulian MacKaymoved to Moscow at the age of 11 to attend theBolshoi Ballet Academy,and later became the first American to complete both the lower and upper schools there?
... thatNarciso Rodriguez for Herperfume was inspired by a bottle of Egyptian musk oilNarciso Rodriguezwas given in high school?

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Image 1City College of New York(fromCollege)
Image 2Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (fromOnline school)
Image 3St John's College, Johannesburg,aboys' schoolinSouth Africa(fromCollege)
Image 4Based aroundNotre-Dame de Paris,theNotre-Dame schoolwas an important centre of polyphonic music. (fromMusic school)
Image 5Curtis Institute of MusicinPhiladelphia,one of the world's most elite conservatories (fromMusic school)
Image 6Ambachtschool(fromVocational school)
Image 7TheAbbey of Cluny(fromHistory of education)
Image 8Scotch College, Melbourne,an independent secondary school inAustralia(fromCollege)
Image 9Scripps College(fromCollege)
Image 10World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008Human Development Report)
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Image 11King's College London,established by aRoyal Charterin 1829, is one of the founding colleges of theUniversity of London.(fromCollege)
Image 12Pomona College(fromCollege)
Image 13Bowdoin College(fromCollege)
Image 14Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (fromVocational school)
Image 15Williams CollegeinWilliamstown,Massachusetts,one of the oldestliberal arts collegesin the United States (fromCollege)
Image 16TheUniversity of OtagoinNew Zealand(fromCollege)
Image 17Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills,c. 1920(fromVocational school)
Image 18Seinäjoki CollegeinSeinäjoki,South Ostrobothnia,Finland,in May 2018 (fromCollege)
Image 19Vocational school inLappajärvi,Finland (fromVocational school)
Image 20A high school building in Argos, Greece (fromSchool)
Image 21The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms ofNuuk,the capital city ofGreenland(fromCollege)
Image 22Sibelius AcademyinHelsinki,Finland (fromMusic school)
Image 23A staged example of an online classroom usingJitsi.The teacher is sharing their screen. (fromOnline school)
Image 24Saint Anselm College(fromCollege)
Image 25Braude College of Engineering(fromCollege)
Image 26Jacobs School of Music,part ofIndiana UniversityinBloomington, Indiana,has over 1,600 students. (fromMusic school)
Image 27TheIndian Institute of Technology, Roorkeeis the oldest technical institution in Asia. (fromCollege)
Image 28György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (fromVocational school)
Image 29Corpus Christi College,one of the constituentcolleges of the University of CambridgeinEngland(fromCollege)
Image 30Albert Bettannier's 1887 paintingLa Tache noiredepicts a child being taught about the "lost" province ofAlsace-Lorrainein the aftermath of theFranco-Prussian War– an example of how European schools were often used in order to inoculateNationalismin their pupils. (fromSchool)
Image 31Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (fromVocational school)
Image 32A school entrance building in Australia (fromSchool)
Image 33Educational institution of this type inCanton,Michigan,United States (fromVocational school)
Image 34To curtail violence, some schools have addedCCTV surveillancecameras. This is especially common in schools withgang activityor violence. (fromSchool)
Image 35West Park Secondary Schoolin Toronto is an example. It was built in 1968 for students with slow learning or special needs. (fromVocational school)
Image 36Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky byNikolay Bogdanov-Belsky.Russia, 1895. (fromSchool)
Image 37Oberlin Conservatory of MusicatOberlin CollegeinOberlin, Ohio(fromMusic school)
Image 38Agnes Scott College(fromCollege)
Image 39Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (fromOnline school)
Image 40Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky byNikolay Bogdanov-Belsky.1895. (fromHistory of education)
Image 41Firstprimary schoolin Nigeria, built in 1845 (fromSchool)
Image 42Loyola School, Chennai,India – run by theCatholic Diocese of Madras.Christian missionaries played a pivotal role in establishing modern schools in India. (fromSchool)
Image 43Birkbeck, University of London(fromCollege)
Image 44A school building inKannur,India (fromSchool)
Image 45King's College Londonin 1831, as engraved by J. C. Carter. It is one of the founding institutions ofUniversity of London,established in 1836. (fromHistory of education)
Image 46Graduates of theSaint Petersburg ConservatoryinRussiaincludePyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,Sergey Prokofiev,Dmitri Shostakovich,andGeorge Balanchine.(fromMusic school)
Image 47TheUniversity of Cambridge(founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (fromHistory of education)
Image 48One-room school in 1935,Alabama(fromSchool)
Image 49RAJUK Uttara Model College,located in the northern suburb ofUttarain the capitalDhaka(fromCollege)
Image 50Amadrasahin the Gambia (fromSchool)
Image 51Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (fromVocational school)
Image 52St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (fromHistory of education)
Image 53Plato's academy,mosaicfromPompeii(fromSchool)
Image 54Royal College Colombo,aboys' schoollocated inColombo,Sri Lanka(fromCollege)
Image 55Parliament Square,Trinity College DublininIreland(fromCollege)
Image 56A staged example of an online classroom usingJitsi.The teacher is sharing their screen. (fromSchool)
Image 57SUNY Purchase College(fromCollege)

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