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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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Roswell High School (RHS) is a public high school in Roswell, Georgia, United States which opened in 1949. It serves the entire city of Roswell west of Georgia State Route 400 and the city of Mountain Park, as well as small portions of Alpharetta and Milton. Roswell High School neighbors both Fellowship Christian School and Blessed Trinity Catholic High School. It is also the second oldest of Fulton County's schools in the northern portion of the county, opening between Milton High School (1921), and Chattahoochee High School (1991). Roswell is currently on its third campus, which opened in 1990. The current building is the oldest in-use high school building in north Fulton.

Roswell is a member of the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) and Region 4-AAAAAAA for athletic competition, as of the 2016–2017 academic year. The school's mascot is the Hornet, and the school colors are green, white and black. Roswell offers 16 different sports, comprising 23 varsity level teams. Eight of the Roswell Hornet teams have won state championships, totaling 20 overall. The most championships won by a single team is seven, accomplished by the girls' gymnastics program. (Full article...)

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Melbourne High School is a selective state school for boys in years 9 to 12 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is currently ranked the second highest scoring school in Victoria, and the highest available for boys. Its sister school for girls is the Mac.Robertson Girls' High School. Alumni range from Sir John Eccles, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, to Nick Green, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in rowing.

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May

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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 the Annenschule (pictured) high school in Saint Petersburg, Russia was transformed into a Soviet work school after the Russian Revolution, but now houses a lyceum?

... that Newark Arts High School in New Jersey opened its doors to students in 1931 as the first U.S. public high school specializing in the visual and performing arts?

... after being headmaster of St. Bees School, George Mallaby joined the army, rose to Colonel, became High Commissioner to New Zealand, and was knighted?

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Fatima Massaquoi-Fahnbulleh (/ˈmæsækwɑː/; 25 December 1911 – 26 November 1978) was a Liberian writer and academic. After completing her education in the United States, she returned to Liberia in 1946, making significant contributions to the cultural and social life of the country.

Born into a family of African royalty, Massaquoi grew up in the care of an aunt in Njagbacca, in the Garwula District of Grand Cape Mount County of southern Liberia. After seven years, she returned to the northwestern part of the country in Montserrado County, where she began her schooling. In 1922 she accompanied her father, a diplomat, to Hamburg, Germany, where she completed her school education and started a course in biology at the University of Hamburg. In 1937 she moved to the United States for further education, studying sociology and anthropology at Lane College, Fisk University and Boston University. While in the US, she collaborated on a dictionary of the Vai language and wrote her autobiography, though a legal battle ensued over the rights to her story. She won an injunction barring others from publishing it, and returned to Liberia in 1946, immediately beginning collaboration to establish a university there, which would become the University of Liberia. (Full article...)

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... that the first studio of Indiana high school radio station WETL was a cedar closet that had once stored furs?
... that the Leeds 13's attempt at staging a holiday at Leeds University Union's expense was taken literally by the British press?
... that Cora Agnes Benneson, one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"?
... that after Florida schools banned 54 mathematics books, Chaz Stevens petitioned that they also ban the Bible?
... that Vikki Blanche did not take her Neighbours audition seriously, thinking that she would not be cast so soon after graduating from school?
... that in the 1980s, Amanda Villepastour, now an ethnomusicologist at Cardiff University, was the keyboardist in Australian new wave band Eurogliders?
... that Winchester College football used to be played on top of a hill, with a line of boys on each side to keep the ball from rolling away?
... that Mark Fabish was recruited to play college football by coach Al Bagnoli and 30 years later succeeded him as head coach of the Columbia Lions?

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

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