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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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School District 53 Okanagan Similkameen is a school district that serves fragments of the southern Okanagan and lower Similkameen regions, which include Cawston, Hedley, Keremeos, Okanagan Falls, Oliver, and Osoyoos, totaling to six communities in the district, all of which are in British Columbia, Canada. Its main "maintenance department" office is held in Oliver, consisting of ten schools, five of which are elementary, three are high or secondary schools, while two are alternative schools. This district's superintendent is Marcus Toneatto, while 2,665 students attend schools in it; there are 480 employees for the Okanagan Simlkammen school district. Their motto is "Learning Today for Living Tomorrow", and all places within the district are towns or villages.

In addition to the conventional school programs, School District 53 offers three adult learning outlets, an outreach school, three early learning centres, as well as one elementary hockey academy; the district supports Aboriginal people. It provides a school bus transportation service, in order for children to get to their school and home, being responsible to the Director of Facilities. This bus service has been considered for expansion. School District 53 maintains a policy on emergency, which was amended on April 30, 2008. There is also a "smoke-free" policy that was amended on September 26, 2007. (Full article...)

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The Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney (PLC Sydney) is an independent, Presbyterian, day and boarding school for girls in Croydon, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, Australia. Alumni include Sibyl Morrison, the first female barrister in New South Wales, Marie Byles, the first practicing female solicitor in New South Wales, and Florence Mary Taylor, the first qualified female architect and first woman to train as an engineer in Australia.

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May

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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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... that United States president Abraham Lincoln learned his ABCs when he attended a blab school (pictured) which he walked to in his youth?

... that Alexander Pope was expelled from Twyford School for writing a poem that poked fun at one of his school masters?

... that three protesters were killed near a Cape Town school by armed police hidden in a "Trojan Horse" vehicle?

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Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden (born June 3, 1951) is an American educator who has been the first lady of the United States since 2021 as the wife of President Joe Biden. She was the second lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 when her husband was vice president. Since 2009, she has been a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, and is believed to be the first wife of a vice president or president to hold a salaried job during the majority of her husband's tenure.

Biden has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Delaware and master's degrees in education and English from West Chester University and Villanova University, and returned to the University of Delaware for a doctoral degree in education. She taught English and reading in high schools for thirteen years and instructed adolescents with emotional disabilities at a psychiatric hospital. Following this, she was an English and writing instructor for fifteen years at Delaware Technical & Community College. (Full article...)

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... that due to segregation, coach Millard Naylor's high school football team needed to play out-of-state opponents for his first 19 seasons?
... that a mercury spill occurred at Agua Fria High School when students discovered and started playing with an unsecured supply of the element?
... that the injuries Anthony W. Case suffered in a school shooting led him to give up baseball and turn to astrophysics as a career?
... that when Ralph Sazio, a Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee, visited Boston University to scout a player, he became so impressed by Dave Viti that he signed him instead?
... that the first Division I college sports championship won by a historically black university in any sport was vacated by the NCAA?
... that Lord Stonehaven, Governor-General of Australia, called Hay War Memorial High School the "finest war memorial in the British Empire"?
... that an Indiana newspaper donated its TV station to the local high school instead of shutting it down?
... that composer Ida Carroll played a central role in the merger of the Northern School of Music and the Royal Manchester College of Music to found the Royal Northern College of Music in 1973?

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

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