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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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Wisbech Grammar School is an 11–18 mixed, Church of England, private day school and sixth form in Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. Founded by the Guild of the Holy Trinity in 1379, it is one of the oldest schools in the country.

Chartered by Edward VI in 1549 as a grammar school for boys, for much of its history it offered a largely classical curriculum of Greek, Latin and arithmetic under the governance of the Wisbech Corporation. The school has moved premises several times since its foundation, being based in St Peter's Church, the old guildhall in Hill Street and on South Brink before merging with the Wisbech High School for Girls in 1970 at the present site on North Brink. (Full article...)

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The Boston Latin School is a public exam school founded on April 23, 1635, in Boston, Massachusetts, making it the oldest public school in the United States. The Public Latin School was a bastion for educating the sons of the Boston elite, resulting in the school claiming many prominent Bostonians as alumni. It has produced four Harvard presidents, four Massachusetts governors, and five signers of the United States Declaration of Independence.

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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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James Morris III ((1752-01-19)January 19, 1752 – (1820-04-20)April 20, 1820) was a Continental Army officer from Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War and founder of the Morris Academy, a pioneer in coeducation.

Born in Litchfield County, Connecticut, James Morris spent his early life hoping and training to be a minister. However, after graduating from Yale College, Morris accepted a commission of First Lieutenant from the Continental Army and joined the fight for American Independence. Morris was captured during the Battle of Germantown and spent most of the remaining war in captivity. Upon his release, Morris was promoted to the rank of Captain and supported Alexander Hamilton in the Siege of Yorktown. When he returned from the war, Morris began and ran an academy that trained both boys and girls together, a rarity at the time. (Full article...)

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... that Nick Kerbawy did not receive his college tennis championship trophy until 14 years after winning it?
... that the 1892 Biddle vs. Livingstone football game was the first college football game ever played between historically black schools?

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Image 1Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 2St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 3Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 4World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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(from History of education)
Image 5Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 6West 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 7The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 8SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 9Pomona College (from College)
Image 10Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 11Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 12A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 13RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 14Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 15Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 16Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 17A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 18Scripps College (from College)
Image 19Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 20King'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 21Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 22Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 23King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 24The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 25First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 26Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 27Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 28Loyola 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 29Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 30A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 31Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 32Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 33One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 34Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 35St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 36Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 37The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 38Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 39Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 40The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 41The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 42György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 43Albert 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 44City College of New York (from College)
Image 45A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 46A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 47A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 48Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 49To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 50Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 51Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 52Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 53Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 54Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 55Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 56Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 57Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)

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