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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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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. The decision partially overruled the Court's 1896 decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, which held that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that had come to be known as "separate but equal." The Court's unanimous decision in Brown and its related cases paved the way for integration, was a major victory of the civil rights movement, and a model for many future impact litigation cases.

The case originated in 1951 when the public school system in Topeka, Kansas, refused to enroll local black resident Oliver Brown's daughter at the school closest to their home, instead requiring her to ride a bus to a segregated black school farther away. The Browns and twelve other local black families in similar situations filed a class-action lawsuit in U.S. federal court against the Topeka Board of Education, alleging that its segregation policy was unconstitutional. A special three-judge court of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas heard the case and ruled against the Browns, relying on the precedent of Plessy and its "separate but equal" doctrine. The Browns, represented by NAACP chief counsel Thurgood Marshall, then appealed the ruling directly to the Supreme Court. (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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1823 – Raffles Institution, the oldest school in Singapore, is founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.

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1987 – In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania rules against the Dover Area School District, holding that teaching intelligent design in public school biology classes violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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1857 – Britain calls on the schoolboys of La Martiniere Lucknow to aid in the residency's defence during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Because of their contributions, La Martiniere Lucknow is the only school in the world to have been awarded royal battle honours

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Francis Xavier Talbot SJ (January 25, 1889 – December 3, 1953) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was active in Catholic literary and publishing circles, and became the President of Loyola College in Maryland. Born in Philadelphia, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1906, and was educated at St. Andrew-on-Hudson and Woodstock College. He taught for several years in New York City and at Boston College, before entering publishing as the literary editor of America magazine in 1923, of which he became the editor-in-chief in 1936. While in this role, he was also active in founding and editing several academic journals, including Thought, and establishing various Catholic literary societies and book clubs. During World War II, he was chaplain to a Catholic organization that previewed movies for the National Legion of Decency. He also supported Franco's rule in Spain because of its support of Catholicism and opposition to communism; he also supported the US war effort. He was described as one of the early leaders of the revival of Catholic literature in the United States.

In 1947, Talbot was named the President of Loyola College in Maryland. He held the office for three years and then was briefly an archivist at Georgetown University before becoming a priest and historian of St. Aloysius Church. He was then assigned to Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, where he died. (Full article...)

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... that Miao Poya successfully campaigned to change her high school's uniform policy before becoming one of the first Taipei city councillors to be openly lesbian?
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... that for more than a decade, WNJC-FM at Northwest Mississippi Junior College was the state's only public radio station?
... that M. Farooqui, who had been expelled from his studies for having organized a strike in 1940, received his Delhi University degree in a special convocation in 1989?
... that Ryan Roberts, a defensive end for Notre Dame, was a soccer player in high school?

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

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