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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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Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík or MR is the oldest gymnasium (Icelandic: Menntaskóli) in Reykjavík, Iceland. Many Icelandic politicians, including former Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson and the current President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, attended MR. Almost every Prime Minister of Iceland has been educated at the school apart from Halldór Ásgrímsson, Ólafur Jóhannesson and Þorsteinn Pálsson.

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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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... that the Liberty Colored High School (pictured), built to replace a Rosenwald school for African-American students in Liberty, South Carolina, is now the Rosenwood community center?
... that Konawaena High School's 18th place finish in the 1990 World Solar Challenge was the basis for the 1996 film Race the Sun?
... that the 2009 film Heart of Stone is the story of Weequahic High School beset by gangs, and its principal working with Black and Jewish alumni and gang members to restore its glory prior to 1960?

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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 Carol Wilson had to pretend that she was a schoolteacher when unofficially representing England at the 1971 Women's World Cup?
... that it was through a social media post that 2023 NFL Draft pick Tavius Robinson was able to receive several offers to play college football?
... that in 1958, New Jersey assemblyman Carmine Savino proposed cutting property taxes in half by imposing a three-percent state sales tax that would be used to cover public school costs?
... that Illinois senator Mark Kirk returned to his former high school as an adult to create a UNICEF club?
... that Jalen Redmond received the offer of a college athletic scholarship before having even played in a high-school football game?
... that the principal of a high school in Taiwan resigned after students held a Nazi-themed parade, complete with mock uniforms and a cardboard tank?
... that the principal of Big Tree Elementary read a book from a hot-air balloon to honor her students for having collectively read more than 2.5 million minutes in 2006?
... that run-pass option plays used in college football allow quarterbacks to pass the ball farther downfield than those used in the NFL?

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

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