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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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Pomona College ( /pəˈmoʊnə/ ^ⓘ pə-MOH-nə) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium of adjacent, affiliated institutions.

Pomona is a four-year undergraduate institution that enrolls approximately 0 students. It offers 48 majors in liberal arts disciplines and roughly 650 courses, as well as access to more than 2,000 additional courses at the other Claremont Colleges. Its 140-acre (57 ha) campus is in a residential community 35 miles (56 km) east of downtown Los Angeles, near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. ( Full article...)

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The St. Thomas School of Leipzig ( German: Thomasschule zu Leipzig) was founded by the Augustinians in 1212 and is one of the oldest schools in the world. St. Thomas School is well known for its art, language and music education. The Humanistic Gymnasium has a very long list of distinguished former students, including Richard Wagner (1813–1883) and many members of the Bach family.

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1823 – Raffles Institution, the oldest school in Singapore, is founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.

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1987 – In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania rules against the Dover Area School District, holding that teaching intelligent design in public school biology classes violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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1857 – Britain calls on the schoolboys of La Martiniere Lucknow to aid in the residency's defence during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Because of their contributions, La Martiniere Lucknow is the only school in the world to have been awarded royal battle honours

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...that Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida is only one of two schools left in the United States named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan?

...that the First Tokyo Middle School, one of the top public secondary schools in Japan, expelled all of its Korean international students in 1905 when they demonstrated against the Eulsa Treaty between Japan and Korea?

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Erasmus Smith (1611–1691) was an English merchant and a landowner with possessions in England and Ireland. Having acquired significant wealth through trade and land transactions, he became a philanthropist in the sphere of education, treading a path between idealism and self-interest during a period of political and religious turbulence. His true motivations remain unclear.

Smith's family owned manors in Leicestershire and held Protestant beliefs. He became a merchant, supplying provisions to the armies of the Puritan Oliver Cromwell – during Cromwell's suppression of rebellion in Ireland — and an alderman of the City of London. His financial and landowning status was greatly enhanced by benefiting from his father's subscription to the Adventurers' Act from which he gained extensive landholdings in Ireland as a reward, and from his own speculative practice of buying additional subscriptions from other investors. ( Full article...)

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... that of more than 300 schools offering evening classes in the District of Columbia in 1907, only Frelinghuysen University admitted Black students?
... that journalist Maurice Smith helped establish a national curling championship for high school students in Canada?
... that Hussein Kamel Bahaeddin tried to pass a decree in 1994 that would have prohibited wearing hijab in Egyptian schools?
... that British singer Hope Tala turned down an opportunity to pursue a master's degree at the University of Cambridge in favour of pursuing a career in music?
... that even though Charles P. Adams meant to hire someone else, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones remained at Grambling State University for 51 years?
... that the California Golden Bears men's basketball team won the 1959 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game by a single point over West Virginia?
... that R. Ames Montgomery resigned as president of Centre College after students petitioned to remove him for de-emphasizing football?
... that the Canadian House of Commons held a take-note debate on the discovery of the graves of more than 200 Indigenous children near Kamloops Indian Residential School in 2021?

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Image 1Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 2A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 3 Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 4A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 5 Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 6World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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(from History of education)
Image 7 Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 8The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 9 City College of New York (from College)
Image 10 King'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 11 Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 12 Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 13Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 14Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 15 Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 16 Pomona College (from College)
Image 17 Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 18The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 19 Scripps College (from College)
Image 20A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 21 Loyola 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 22 Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 23First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 24 Albert 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 25 RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 26Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 27 SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 28Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 29 Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 30György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 31 Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 32Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 33Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 34 Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 35 King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 36A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 37St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 38The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 39A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 40A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 41Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 42 St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 43 Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 44The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 45The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 46Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 47Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 48Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 49 West 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 50To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 51One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 52 Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 53 Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 54 Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 55Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 56Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 57Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)

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