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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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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^[update], 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 2021–2022 school year, the district received a score of 89 out of 100 from the Texas Education Agency. (Full article...)

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The sun setting on Korean Minjok Leadership Academy

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Korean Minjok Leadership Academy (Korean: 민족사관고등학교, Hanja: 民族史觀高等學校), also known as KMLA or Minsago (민사고) for short, is a private high school located in the countryside of Gangwon-do, South Korea. In 2007, the Wall Street Journal listed KMLA as one of the best secondary schools in the world for gaining admission to top American universities.

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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 Wyoming Seminary, a private school in Kingston, Pennsylvania, participated in the first nighttime American football game in 1892?

...that Immediate Past President of the American Bar Association Michael S. Greco taught English at Phillips Exeter Academy before attending law school?

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Mary Carpenter (3 April 1807 – 14 June 1877) was an English educational and social reformer. The daughter of a Unitarian minister, she founded a ragged school and reformatories, bringing previously unavailable educational opportunities to poor children and young offenders in Bristol.

She published articles and books on her work and her lobbying was instrumental in the passage of several educational acts in the mid-nineteenth century. She was the first woman to have a paper published by the Statistical Society of London. She addressed many conferences and meetings and became known as one of the foremost public speakers of her time. Carpenter was active in the anti-slavery movement; she also visited India, visiting schools and prisons and working to improve female education, establish reformatory schools and improve prison conditions. In later years she visited Europe and America, carrying on her campaigns of penal and educational reform. (Full article...)

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... that at WOPR, a high-school radio station in Michigan, DJs were forced to change the music styles they played every two weeks?
... that Jaz Brisack, leader of the movement to unionize Starbucks, was the first woman Rhodes Scholar at the University of Mississippi?
... 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?
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... that YouTube channel Trial & Error's manner of selling live-show tickets—HK$10,000 on day one, $5,000 on day two, all the way to $10 on day 24—appeared on a university entrance exam?
... that Presbyterian football head coach Kevin Kelley won nine state championships as a high school coach by rarely punting and almost always attempting fourth down conversions?
... that Iraqi poet Isa Hasan al-Yasiri ran away from school at 10 years old, before travelling with a camel caravan overnight to another village?
... that the solar panels of Canyon View High School provide shade from the Arizona heat and provide 20 percent of the school's energy?

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Image 1Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 2Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 3Pomona College (from College)
Image 4Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 5The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 6Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 7György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 8Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 9A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 10Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 11City College of New York (from College)
Image 12A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 13King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 14To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 15First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 16Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 17Scripps College (from College)
Image 18Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 19Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 20Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 21Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 22Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 23Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 24Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 25King'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 26The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 27Loyola 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 28The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 29Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 30St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 31Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 32Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 33Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 34Albert 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 35Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 36Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 37Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 38World 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 39West 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 40Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 41Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 42Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 43The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 44Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 45Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 46St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 47The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 48Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 49Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 50SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 51A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 52Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 53A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 54RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 55A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 56A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 57One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)

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