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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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Whitney High School is a public school located in the southern Placer County city of Rocklin, California, a settlement in the northern Sacramento metropolitan area. Whitney is one of two high schools in Rocklin Unified School District; its counterpart is Rocklin High School. The school is the district's newest educational facility, having opened in 2005 to freshmen and sophomores; Whitney's first freshmen graduated at the end of the 2008–09 school year. That same school year, Whitney was recognized as a California Distinguished School.

The school educates its students using a modified block schedule program that alternates four periods every two days. Students are subject to eight different periods in total. Students at the school are also taught through a standard-based essential skills program, where students must demonstrate mastery of all skills deemed necessary in a class before credits can be earned; additionally, students must achieve a grade higher than C by the year's end, as scores lower than C equate to a "No mark", and the course must be retaken. As of the end of the 2009–10 school year, the high school fielded twenty-three clubs, including an award-winning school yearbook (known as Details), a school newspaper (known as the Roar), and an Emmy winning broadcast program (known as Unleashed). Whitney also ran twenty-three sports teams as of the 2008–09 school year; the football and girls' soccer teams were champions at the 2009 Sac-Joaquin Section Championships for the respective sports. (Full article...)

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Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts is the oldest continuously running incorporated boarding school in the United States. Among other notable alumni, Andover has educated two American Presidents, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, Law and Order creator Dick Wolf, four Medal of Honor recipients, inventor Samuel Morse, and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..

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1958 – A fire breaks out at the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois, killing a total of 92 pupils and 3 nuns. The severity of the fire shocks the United States and leads to major improvements in standards for school design and fire safety codes.

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1884 - Moose Jaw School District #1 and Qu'Appelle School District #2 were formally established Dec. 5, 1884 under the new Board of Education for the North West Territories, Canada

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1891 – James Naismith introduces the first version of basketball, with thirteen rules, a peach basket nailed to either end of his school's gymnasium, and two teams of nine players.

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2005 – US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

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Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden (née Jacobs; born June 3, 1951) is an American educator who has been the first lady of the United States since 2021 as the wife of President Joe Biden. She was the second lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 when her husband was vice president. Since 2009, she has been a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, and is believed to be the first wife of a vice president or president to hold a salaried job during the majority of her husband's tenure.

Born in Hammonton, New Jersey, Biden grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. She married then widower Joe Biden in 1977, becoming the stepmother of Beau and Hunter. Biden and her husband also have a daughter together, Ashley Biden, born in 1981. Biden has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Delaware and master's degrees in education and English from West Chester University and Villanova University, and returned to the University of Delaware for a doctoral degree in education. She taught English and reading in high schools for thirteen years and instructed adolescents with emotional disabilities at a psychiatric hospital. Following this, she was an English and writing instructor for fifteen years at Delaware Technical & Community College. (Full article...)

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... that Cypress College basketball coach Don Johnson, who was an All-American at UCLA, developed two players with minimal experience who later played for his alma mater and set records in the NBA?
... that Anna Russell Cole, a significant benefactor of Vanderbilt University, donated $10,000 in 1926 to endow the office of dean of women?
... that Anthony F. Ciampi fought his superiors to rebuild the College of the Holy Cross after it was destroyed by fire in 1852?
... that a complaint signed by 52 people resulted in curriculum standards at New York State's private schools being subject to structured regulatory oversight for the very first time?
... that future U.S. Supreme Court justice Wiley Rutledge married his college Greek instructor—in a tuberculosis sanatorium?
... that in 1951, the University of Arizona radio bureau produced four different programs that aired on four different Tucson stations?
... that Hurley Goodall was appointed back onto the school board in Muncie, Indiana, following the death of his successor in a plane crash?
... that interviews collected for a Boston College oral history project were used in two murder trials?

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