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A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually 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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The Avery Coonley School (ACS), commonly called Avery Coonley, is an independent, coeducational day school serving academically gifted students in preschool through eighth grade (approximately ages 3 to 14), and is located in Downers Grove, DuPage County, Illinois. The school was founded in 1906 to promote the progressive educational theories developed by John Dewey and other turn-of-the-20th-century philosophers, and was a nationally recognized model for progressive education well into the 1940s. From 1943 to 1965, Avery Coonley was part of the National College of Education (now National Louis University), serving as a living laboratory for teacher training.

The school moved to Downers Grove in 1916 and became the Avery Coonley School in 1929, with a new 10.45-acre (4.23 ha) campus designed in the Prairie and Arts and Crafts styles, landscaped by Jens Jensen. Avery Coonley was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. (Full article...)

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La Martinière College is a premiere educational institution located in Lucknow, the capital of the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh. The College consists of two schools: La Martinière Boys' College was founded in 1845 and La Martinière Girls' College was established in 1869. The Boys' College is the only school in the world to have been awarded royal battle honours.

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In the United States, August is National Back to School Month.

Filipino schools and theaters celebrate Filipino Language Month ("Buwan ng Wika") in August.

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1949 – Reconstruction of Rizal High School in the Philippines, the largest secondary school in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is completed after the original building was destroyed from carpet-bombing by American Liberation Forces during World War II.

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2005 – Hurricane Katrina damages or destroys more than 100 of the 128 school buildings under the school district New Orleans Public Schools.

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...that the Kentucky High School Athletic Association divides its member schools into separate enrollment classes in only three of the 13 sports in which it conducts state championships?

...that the Normal School for Colored Girls was incorporated into the University of the District of Columbia?

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Martha Watts (February 13, 1848 – December 30, 1909) was an American missionary and school teacher who established four educational facilities in Brazil. Educated in Kentucky at the Louisville Normal School, she was in the first graduating class in the early 1870s and became a teacher, working in the public schools. After joining the Broadway Methodist Church in 1874, Watts joined a youth missionary society and founded a Sunday school class. In 1881, after applying to the Women's Board of Foreign Missions, she was accepted as the second woman from the United States to act as a foreign missionary and was the first woman to be sent to Brazil.

Arriving in the state of São Paulo in 1881, Watts' mission was to establish a school in Piracicaba. Within months, though she only had one student, Watts had opened the Colégio Piracicabano and began by recruiting a French teacher, Marie Rennotte, in 1882. At the time, most educational materials had been translated into French, as it was the universal language of education. The two women worked together to design an innovative co-educational learning environment, which offered courses in languages, literature, mathematics, philosophy, and the natural and physical sciences. Though criticized by conservative sectors of society and the Catholic Church, Watts gained powerful supporters, including prominent progressive politicians, lawyers, masons, and abolitionists. By the 1890s, the school method and curricula had gained wide support, the student body had grown substantially, and their methods were being implemented throughout the state. (Full article...)

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... that as a high schooler in 2018, Logan O'Hoppe caught a home-run ball at Yankee Stadium hit by visiting player Manny Machado and was televised throwing it back on the field?
... that Enoch Marvin Banks resigned from the University of Florida because of public outrage over his belief that the American Civil War was caused by slavery?
... that Australia has three major Japanese language schools?
... that ballerina Marina Kondratyeva served the Bolshoi Ballet and its school for over 70 years?
... that the ghost of Margaret C. Waites is said to haunt an undergraduate suite at Harvard College's Cabot House, protecting her book collection?
... that Lenny Brown almost left his college basketball team after two games, but stayed to become one of its all-time leading scorers?
... that American educator Janet Sorg Stoltzfus established the first foreign school in northern Yemen?
... that the Leonia Alternative High School's employment of volunteer instructors led to opposition from the local teachers' union?

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Image 1Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 2Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 3Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 4The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 5SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 6Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 7A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 8First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 9King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 10Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 11Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy (from History of education)
Image 12Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 13Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 14Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 15Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 16St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 17Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 18A high school in Milan in the 1920s (from History of education)
Image 19Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 20Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 21Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatoires (from Music school)
Image 22Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 23Loyola 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 24Aristotle and his disciples – Alexander, Demetrius, Theophrastus, and Strato, in an 1888 fresco in the portico of the National University of Athens (from History of education)
Image 25A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 26Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 27RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 28Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 29Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 30City College of New York (from College)
Image 31Established in 1224 by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, University of Naples Federico II in Italy is the world's oldest state-funded university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 32The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 33Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 34Scripps College (from College)
Image 35Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 36Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 37World 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
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(from History of education)
Image 38Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 39St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 40University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 41The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 42Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 43Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 44Pazhassiraja College in Pulpally, Kerala, India (from College)
Image 45Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 46Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 47To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 48Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 49A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 50Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 51Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 52A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 53Albert 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 54Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 55Istanbul University (1453) was founded by sultan Mehmed II as a Darülfünun. On 1 August 1933, as part of Atatürk's reforms, it was reorganized and became the Republic's first modern university. (from History of education)
Image 56A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 57Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 58A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 59Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 60Pomona College (from College)
Image 61King'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 62The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 63György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 64Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 65Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 66A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 67Literacy rates in Italy in 1861, shortly after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy. Italy lacks Lazio and the Triveneto, which were subsequently annexed. (from History of education)
Image 68Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 69One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)

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