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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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The University of Wisconsin Experimental College was a two-year college designed and led by Alexander Meiklejohn inside the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a great books, liberal arts curriculum. It was established in 1927 and closed in 1932. Meiklejohn proposed the idea for an alternative college in a 1925 Century magazine article. The magazine's editor-in-chief, Glenn Frank, became the University of Wisconsin's president and invited Meiklejohn to begin the college within the university. Despite pushback from the faculty, the college opened in the fall of 1927 with a self-governing community of 119 students and less than a dozen faculty. Students followed a uniform curriculum: Periclean Athens for freshmen and modern America for sophomores. The program sought to teach democracy and to foster an intrinsic love of learning within its students.

The college's students became known as free spirited outsiders within the university for their different dress, apathetic demeanor, and greater interest in reading books. The college's demographics were unlike the rest of the university, with students largely not from Wisconsin and disproportionately of Jewish and East Coast families. The college developed a reputation for radicalism and wanton anarchy, especially within Wisconsin. The students lived and worked with their teachers, called advisers, in Adams Hall, away from the heart of the university. They had no fixed schedule, no compulsory lessons, and no semesterly grades, though they read from a common syllabus. The advisers taught primarily through tutorial instead of lectures. Extracurricular groups, including philosophy, law, and theater clubs, were entirely student led. (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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In the United States, August is National Back to School Month.

Filipino schools and theaters celebrate Filipino Language Month ("Buwan ng Wika") in August.

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1949 – Reconstruction of Rizal High School in the Philippines, the largest secondary school in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is completed after the original building was destroyed from carpet-bombing by American Liberation Forces during World War II.

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2005 – Hurricane Katrina damages or destroys more than 100 of the 128 school buildings under the school district New Orleans Public Schools.

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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 during the 1979 Boston University strike, some striking professors carried picket signs with quotes from Paul the Apostle, William Shakespeare, and Voltaire?
... that Anderson Stadium in Austin, Texas, is the last high-school football stadium in the state built exclusively for African-American students?
... that despite being undersized and not highly recruited, Casey Tiumalu became the BYU Cougars' leader in both rushing and receiving, earning an honorable mention as an All-American?
... that Brison Manor, who played eight years in the National Football League, had never set foot outside of his home state before attending college?
... that soccer player Danielle Marcano scored four goals in back-to-back games that helped to send the University of Tennessee to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals for the first time in history?
... that Ugandan military officer Bernard Rwehururu originally wanted to become a Catholic priest, but enlisted as a soldier to pay for his siblings' school fees?
... that Keith Hartwig overcame an injury that he was told would end his career in high school, and went on to play in the National Football League?
... that Diamond Miller is the all-time leading scorer on her high-school basketball team – a record previously held by her sister?

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Image 1A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 2Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 3Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 4Loyola 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 5Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 6A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 7Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 8World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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Image 9Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 10Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 11Scripps College (from College)
Image 12St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 13RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 14Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 15SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 16Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 17Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 18Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 19A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 20Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 21Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 22Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 23Albert 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 24Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 25A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 26Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 27City College of New York (from College)
Image 28West 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 29The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 30To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 31Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 32A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 33Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 34Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 35The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 36György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 37First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 38St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 39One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 40King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 41Pomona College (from College)
Image 42Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 43Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 44Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 45The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 46Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 47King'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 48Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 49Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 50Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 51Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 52The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 53A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 54The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 55A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 56Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 57Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 58Braude College of Engineering (from College)

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