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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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Port Charlotte High School (PCHS) is a public comprehensive U.S. high school located in Port Charlotte, Florida and is located adjacent to Charlotte Technical College. The school opened in 1981, graduated its first class in 1984, its mascot is the pirate, and the school motto is "Yes, I am a Pirate." It is operated by Charlotte County Public Schools.

At one point in time, Port Charlotte High School was the largest high school in Charlotte County, with 2,082 students enrolled in grades Grades 9 through 12. Charlotte County Public Schools has "controlled open enrollment" in which students are generally assigned to a specific school by default based on geographic location, but families choose to enroll students at a different school if the selected school is not at capacity. (Full article...)

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Cleveland Tower, designed by Ralph Adams Cram, is a prominent landmark of Princeton University. It is one of the defining architectural features of the Collegiate Gothic Graduate College, inspired by Boston College's Gasson Hall. The tower was built in 1913 as a memorial to former U.S. President Grover Cleveland, who also served as a university trustee. A bust of the former president is the centerpiece of the grand chamber at the tower's ground level.

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1958 – A fire breaks out at the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois, killing a total of 92 pupils and 3 nuns. The severity of the fire shocks the United States and leads to major improvements in standards for school design and fire safety codes.

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1884 - Moose Jaw School District #1 and Qu'Appelle School District #2 were formally established Dec. 5, 1884 under the new Board of Education for the North West Territories, Canada

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1891 – James Naismith introduces the first version of basketball, with thirteen rules, a peach basket nailed to either end of his school's gymnasium, and two teams of nine players.

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2005 – US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

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... that the Bolhrad High School (pictured) in Bolhrad, Ukraine, was founded by the Bessarabian Bulgarian diaspora as the first high school of the Bulgarian National Revival period?
... that the now defunct Heritage Christian School in Hillsboro, Oregon, once held a chariot race?
... that despite being located in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Assumption Preparatory School followed French custom in holding classes on Saturday mornings but not on Thursday or Saturday afternoons?

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Dr James in 1905, when Headmaster of Rugby School

Herbert Armitage James, CH (3 August 1844 – 15 November 1931) was a Welsh cleric and headmaster of three leading public schools, who ended his "remarkable scholastic career", as it was later described by Austen Chamberlain, by becoming President of St John's College, Oxford. After an Oxford education and early teaching career at Marlborough College, he was headmaster of Rossall School from 1875 to 1886. It was said that he raised the school "to a pitch of all-round excellence which it had not known before". After suffering from health problems at Rossall, he served as Dean of St Asaph from 1886 to 1889. He returned to teaching in 1889, becoming headmaster of Cheltenham College and remaining in this post until 1895, despite being offered the position of headmaster of Clifton College. He then became headmaster of Rugby School and served there to great acclaim. His Rugby School nickname of "The Bodger" is still in use at the school. He left Rugby School in 1909 to become President of St John's College, Oxford, a position he held until his death 22 years later.

He was a highly respected teacher and preacher, being described as one of the best preachers of his day. He was widely praised for his work at Rossall, Cheltenham, Rugby and St John's. He was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour by King George V in 1926. At a dinner in his honour held to mark this award, attended by over 200 friends and former students, he was described by Austen Chamberlain (the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) as "one of the greatest and most forceful characters who had ever devoted himself to education". The Lord Chancellor, Viscount Cave, also spoke at the dinner to praise James's directness in his opinions and decisions, his weighty judgment, his high character and his kindly nature. (Full article...)

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... that railway engineer Henry Ketchum earned the first diploma in civil engineering granted by the University of New Brunswick?
... that Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Britain Covey played quarterback in high school and led his team to 26 consecutive wins?
... that American football linebacker Segun Olubi grew up in New Jersey, Minnesota, Arizona, England, and California, and attended four different colleges in Idaho, California, and Arkansas?
... that American educator Janet Sorg Stoltzfus established the first foreign school in northern Yemen?
... that Canadian painter Ethel Ogden was central to developing china painting within the Fine Arts Department at the Mount Allison Ladies' College?
... that physiotherapist Alison McGregor was one of the Olympic flame torchbearers from Imperial College London in the build-up to the London Olympic Games in 2012?
... that the new curriculum in Wales allows schools to set their own curricula?
... that COVID-19 vaccine scientist Paul Duprex got his start in microbiology by experimenting with his high-school classmates' spit?

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Image 1SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 2Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 3Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 4Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 5A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 6A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 7Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 8King'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 9City College of New York (from College)
Image 10The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 11Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 12Aristotle 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 13Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 14Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 15Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 16Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 17A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 18World 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 19Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 20St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 21To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 22Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 23Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 24A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 25Loyola 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 26Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 27Pazhassiraja College in Pulpally, Kerala, India (from College)
Image 28Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 29György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 30RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 31Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 32St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 33West 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 34Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy (from History of education)
Image 35Albert 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 36Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 37Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 38Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 39Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 40Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 41Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 42Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 43Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 44Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatoires (from Music school)
Image 45King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 46Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 47Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 48Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 49The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 50Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 51Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 52A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 53Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 54Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 55First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 56Established 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 57Istanbul 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 58The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 59A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 60The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 61Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 62A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 63Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 64One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 65A high school in Milan in the 1920s (from History of education)
Image 66Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
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 68Scripps College (from College)
Image 69University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 70Pomona College (from College)

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