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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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Union City High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Union City, in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Union City Board of Education. The four-story school is located between Kennedy Boulevard and Summit Avenue, from 24th to 26th Street, with additional facilities a block south on Kerrigan Avenue. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools through July 2023.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 3,025 students and 179.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.9:1. There were 2,161 students (71.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 346 (11.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. Based on 2021-22 data from the New Jersey Department of Education, it was the second-largest high school in the state (behind Passaic County Technical Institute) and one of 29 schools with more than 2,000 students. (Full article...)

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Raffles Institution is an independent boys' secondary school in Singapore. Founded in 1823 as Singapore Institution by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, it was consistently ranked as one of the top secondary schools in Singapore in the now-defunct official school rankings released by the Ministry of Education. Notable alumni include Yusof bin Ishak and Benjamin Henry Sheares, the first and second Presidents of Singapore, respectively.

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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 Christian Zheng Sheng College (pictured) on Lantau, Hong Kong, has a dormitory on Cheung Chau from which students take small ferries called kai-tos to get to school?

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Charles W. Lyons in 1914

Charles William Lyons SJ (January 31, 1868 – January 31, 1939) was an American Catholic priest who became the only Jesuit and likely the only educator in the United States to have served as the president of four colleges. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he attended the local public schools before entering the wool industry. He abandoned his career in industry to enter the Society of Jesus. While a novice in Maryland, he suffered a nervous breakdown and was sent to Georgetown University as prefect. He then resumed his studies at Woodstock College, teaching intermittently at Gonzaga College in Washington, D.C. and Loyola College in Baltimore. After his ordination, he became a professor at St. Francis Xavier College in New York City and at Boston College.

In 1908, Lyons became the rector of Gonzaga College, where he remained for a year before being appointed the president of Saint Joseph's College in Philadelphia. While there, he had constructed a new building for the faculty, and his tenure came to an end when he became the president of Boston College in 1914. He continued the major construction plan of his predecessor, overseeing the completion of St. Mary's Hall and Alumni Field. He also dealt with the severe downturn in enrollment due to World War I. His term came to an end in 1919, and for the next several years, he taught at Boston College, was a priest at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York, oversaw the construction of Weston College, and led retreats around the country. (Full article...)

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... that Cornell University's student-oriented programming language dialect was made available to other universities but required a "research grant" payment in exchange?

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Image 1A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 2A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 3World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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(from History of education)
Image 4The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 5Pomona College (from College)
Image 6Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 7A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 8Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 9Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 10Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 11Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 12Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 13Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 14RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 15Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 16Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 17Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 18Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 19A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 20Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 21Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 22Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 23Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 24Scripps College (from College)
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 26Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 27Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 28The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 29Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 30SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 31St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 32Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 33György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 34To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 35Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 36Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 37Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 38Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 39City College of New York (from College)
Image 40Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 41Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 42Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 43Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 44A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 45First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 46The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 47A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 48Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 49Loyola 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 50Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 51The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 52West 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 53St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 54King'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 55Albert 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 56The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 57One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)

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