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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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Gordon Parks High School is a public alternative learning center in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. The school, founded in 1991, was originally the Saint Paul Area Learning Center. It was then called Unidale Alternative Learning Center for several years, after the local strip mall it operated in; this was often shortened to ALC Unidale. In 2007, a permanent building was built for the school and it was again renamed. The school serves high-school-age students categorized as "at risk" or far behind in grade level. It is the largest of seven alternative day school programs in the Saint Paul Public Schools district. (Full article...)

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Robert College of Istanbul (Turkish: Istanbul Amerikan Robert Lisesi) is one of the most selective independent private high schools in Turkey. The Institution is the oldest American school still in existence in its original location outside of the United States, and has a long list of notable alumni, including Nobel Prize recipient Orhan Pamuk.

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

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

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1988 – The Education Reform Act of 1988 is introduced into England, Wales and Northern Ireland, ensuring that state schools of all Local Education Authorities have a common curriculum.

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1881 – Permission is received from Her Majesty Queen Victoria to rename Colombo Academy and Queens College in Sri Lanka to Royal College, Colombo

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

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Nathan Covington Brooks (August 12, 1809 – October 6, 1898) was an American educator, historian, and poet. Born in West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland, Brooks grew up to become the first principal of Baltimore City College, the third oldest public high school in the United States, and the only president of the Baltimore Female College, the first institution of higher education for women in Maryland. He also was the owner of the literary magazine The American Museum in which he published several works of the famed poet Edgar Allan Poe, and the author of several textbooks on classical literature. Brooks died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Full article...)

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... that a nihilist school of metaphysics contends that tables and chairs do not exist?

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Image 1Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 2SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 3To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 4One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 5A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 6Scripps College (from College)
Image 7Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 8Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 9Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 10Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 11A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 12King'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 13Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 14Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 15RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 16A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 17Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 18György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 19Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 20The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 21World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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- 0.900–0.949
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(from History of education)
Image 22Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 23Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 24Loyola 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 25Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 26Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 27St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 28Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 29Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 30Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 31City College of New York (from College)
Image 32The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 33Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 34King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 35St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 36Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 37Pomona College (from College)
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 39A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 40A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 41The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 42Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 43The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 44Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 45Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 46West 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 47Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 48Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 49Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 50First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 51Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 52Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 53A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 54Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 55The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 56Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 57Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)

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