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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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Main entrance of the current Johnson Senior High School

Johnson Senior High School is a comprehensive high school for grades 9 to 12 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Originally named Cleveland High School, the school was renamed after Minnesota governor John A. Johnson in 1911. Johnson is the second oldest high school in the Saint Paul Public Schools district and is only surpassed in age by Central High School. The school has operated in three different buildings since 1897, all located on the East Side of Saint Paul.

Johnson is the third largest high school in the district, and enrolls 1647 students. The school offers Advanced Placement classes as well as the University of Minnesota-affiliated College in the Schools program. In 2002 the school received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which led to the introduction of eight Small Learning Communities. (Full article...)

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Samuel Phillips Hall at Phillips Academy

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Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts is the oldest continuously running incorporated boarding school in the United States. Among other notable alumni, Andover has educated two American Presidents, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, Law and Order creator Dick Wolf, four Medal of Honor recipients, inventor Samuel Morse, and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..

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May

17th

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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Carmen Casco de Lara Castro (17 June 1918 – 8 May 1993) was a Paraguayan teacher, women's and human rights advocate, and politician. She established one of the first independent human rights organizations in Latin America and fought for both women's equality and an end to state-sponsored terrorism under the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. She was influential in passing legislation for pay equity and maternity rights, as well as securing the repeal of laws curtailing basic human rights.

Born into an influential family, Casco was educated as a teacher and taught from the end of the 1930s to 1965. Having relatives sent into exile and witnessing the devastation of two wars, she was propelled into working to alleviate the suffering of those who were more marginalized than she. Initially she began working on issues involving women and political prisoners. When elected to serve on the 1967 Constitutional Assembly, she worked to have basic human rights added to the Paraguayan Constitution. One of the founders of the Commission for the Defense of Human Rights of Paraguay, she became its president and served in that capacity until her death. Unable to prosecute those who abused others' liberties, the organization focused on providing aid to victims but also compiled information on those who had been forcibly "disappeared". (Full article...)

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

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