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A school is the 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 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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School District 53 Okanagan Similkameen is a school district that serves fragments of the southern Okanagan and lower Similkameen regions, which include Cawston, Hedley, Keremeos, Okanagan Falls, Oliver, and Osoyoos, totaling to six communities in the district, all of which are in British Columbia, Canada. Its main "maintenance department" office is held in Oliver, consisting of ten schools, five of which are elementary, three are high or secondary schools, while two are alternative schools. This district's superintendent is Marcus Toneatto, while 2,665 students attend schools in it; there are 480 employees for the Okanagan Simlkammen school district. Their motto is "Learning Today for Living Tomorrow", and all places within the district are towns or villages.

In addition to the conventional school programs, School District 53 offers three adult learning outlets, an outreach school, three early learning centres, as well as one elementary hockey academy; the district supports Aboriginal people. It provides a school bus transportation service, in order for children to get to their school and home, being responsible to the Director of Facilities. This bus service has been considered for expansion. School District 53 maintains a policy on emergency, which was amended on April 30, 2008. There is also a "smoke-free" policy that was amended on September 26, 2007. (Full article...)

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Father's Building (Languages) and the Mackenzie Building (Admissions) at Lawrenceville School

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The Lawrenceville School is a coeducational, independent preparatory boarding school for grades 9-12 located in the historic community of Lawrenceville, in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, U.S. As of June 30, 2006, its endowment was roughly $229 million, or nearly $290,000 per student. Its alumni range from Nobel laureate George Akerlof to former Disney CEO Michael Eisner.

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1887 – Teacher Anne Sullivan meets Helen Keller for the first time in Tuscumbia, Alabama.

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1887 – The first public secondary school in Thailand, Suankularb Wittayalai School, is established by King Chulalongkorn.

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1996 – The Dunblane massacre, a multiple murder-suicide in which sixteen children and one adult are killed, occurs at Dunblane Primary School in the Scottish town of Dunblane. It remains the deadliest single targeted mass homicide on children in the history of the United Kingdom.

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1937 – A natural gas leak causes an explosion, destroying the New London School of the city of New London, Texas. The disaster kills in excess of 295 students and teachers, making it the worst catastrophe to take place in a U.S. school building.

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J. Hunter Guthrie in 1949

Joseph Hunter Guthrie SJ (January 8, 1901 – November 11, 1974) was an American academic philosopher, writer, Jesuit, and Catholic priest. Born in New York City, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1917, and began his studies at Woodstock College. Following his undergraduate and graduate work there, he taught at Jesuit institutions in the Philippines until 1927. Following his ordination in 1930, he received doctorates in theology and philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University and the University of Paris, respectively. He then returned to the United States, where he became a professor of philosophy at Woodstock College and Fordham University.

In 1943, Guthrie became the chairman of graduate philosophy at Georgetown University and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In this role, he admitted the first women to the school on equal terms as men. For twenty years, he promoted the belief that intellectuals must play a central role in combatting the ideologies that led to World War II. To that end, he was a member of the drafting committee of the UNESCO charter, was a co-founder of an American academy of Catholic intellectuals, and travelled the world with the U.S. State Department, for which he received honors from several countries and organizations. (Full article...)

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Image 1A high school in Milan in the 1920s (from History of education)
Image 2Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 3A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 4Pazhassiraja College in Pulpally, Kerala, India (from College)
Image 5Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 6Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 7World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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Image 8Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 9Loyola 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 10Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 11A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 12Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 13The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 14SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 15Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 16Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 17The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 18A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 19A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 20Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 21Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 22A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 23First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 24Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 25György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 26Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 27Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 28University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 29Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 30Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 31RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 32Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 33St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 34Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy (from History of education)
Image 35A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 36Aristotle 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 37Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 38Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 39Istanbul 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 40Scripps College (from College)
Image 41Albert 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 42Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 43Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 44Pomona College (from College)
Image 45To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 46Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 47Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 48Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 49The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 50Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 51Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 52The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 53Literacy 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 54Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 55A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 56King'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 57City College of New York (from College)
Image 58One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 59Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 60King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 61Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 62Established 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 63St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 64Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 65Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 66Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatoires (from Music school)
Image 67West 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 68Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 69Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 70Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)

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