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A school is an 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 organizations. 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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Klein Independent School District (Klein ISD) is a school district that covers 87.5 square miles (227 km²) in Harris County, Texas, United States. It became an independent school district in 1938. Almost all of the territory is unincorporated; a small portion of Houston is within the district. In the 2020–2021 school year, Klein ISD had 52,824 students. Klein ISD is part of the taxation base for the Lone Star College System. As of 2022, Jenny McGown is Superintendent of Schools.

The district has 33 elementary schools (including a Pre-K designated school), ten intermediate schools, and five high schools. For the 2024–25 school year, the district received a score of 86 out of 100 from the Texas Education Agency. (Full article...)

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The original building at Shenandoah Valley Academy pictured in 1924.

Shenandoah Valley Academy is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational parochial boarding school located in New Market, Virginia. It is ranked as one of the best private schools in Virginia for getting into top ivy, little ivy, and public ivy universities. Pictured is the original building at Shenandoah Valley Academy pictured in 1924.

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1572 – Harrow School is founded under the Royal Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I to John Lyon, a local farmer.

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2001 - American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fisheries High School.

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1905 – Victoria, Australia's first state secondary school, the Melbourne Continuation School, opens with 135 girls and 68 boys. It now exists as Melbourne High School and Mac.Robertson Girls' High School

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1944 – The buildings of Thomasschule zu Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany are destroyed during Big Week or Operation Argument as part of the European strategic bombing campaign against the Third Reich during World War II.

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Shardlow Hall in the early 1800s

... that the headmaster of Shardlow Hall (pictured), a school in Derbyshire, played soccer for England?

... that the International High School in Paterson, New Jersey, was built with triple-pane windows to keep out noise from Interstate 80, located just 20 feet (6 m) from the school building?

... that after 175 years in operation the Red Brick School, one of the oldest single room school houses in the U.S., closed in 2008?

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Rambhadracharya Ji in 2009

Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya (born Giridhar Mishra on 14 January 1950) is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, educator, Sanskrit scholar, polyglot, poet, author, textual commentator, philosopher, composer, singer, playwright and Katha artist based in Chitrakoot, India. He is one of four incumbent Jagadguru Ramanandacharyas, and has held this title since 1988.

Rambhadracharya is the founder and head of Tulsi Peeth, a religious and social service institution in Chitrakoot named after Tulsidas. He is the founder and lifelong chancellor of the Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University in Chitrakoot, which offers graduate and postgraduate courses exclusively to four types of disabled students. Rambhadracharya has been blind since the age of two months, had no formal education until the age of seventeen years, and has never used Braille or any other aid to learn or compose. (Full article...)

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... that at the age of 27 New Zealand entrepreneur Jamie Beaton had degrees from Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, and Tsinghua University, and was working on his seventh degree, from Yale?
... that Robert Yelverton Tyrrell became a professor of classics despite spending only six weeks at secondary school?
... that the 1892 Biddle vs. Livingstone football game was the first college football game ever played between historically black schools?
... that a Utah college radio station was found not to be educational enough?
... that Coco of Coco & Clair Clair developed her alias for school announcements during her senior year of high school?
... that William Aditya Sarana was sworn in as a regional legislator four days before he graduated from university?
... that Saints Peter and Paul Seminary, the last Catholic high school seminary in Ohio before its closure in 1990, was designed with influences from Chinese architecture?
... that Ukrainian Sheriffs went to summer school after being shot?

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Image 1Pomona College (from College)
Image 2The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 3Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 4Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 5SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 6Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 7First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 8World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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(from History of education)
Image 9Literacy 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 10Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012–2015) (from Online school)
Image 11Istanbul 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 12RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 13King's College London, established by 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 15Loyola 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 16Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 17Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 18Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 19The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 20Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 21Aristotle 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 22Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 23One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 24Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 25Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012–2015) (from Online school)
Image 26Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 27A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 28A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 29A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 30A high school in Milan in the 1920s (from History of education)
Image 31Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 32Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy (from History of education)
Image 33St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 34Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 35Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 36University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 37Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 38A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 39Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 40Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 41Scripps College (from College)
Image 42Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 43Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 44Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 45St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 46A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 47Albert 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 48Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 49Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 50Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatoires (from Music school)
Image 51A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 52Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 53Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 54To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 55The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 56Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 57Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 58Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 59A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 60City College of New York (from College)
Image 61György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 62Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 63King'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 64Established 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 65Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 66Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 67Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 68Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)

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