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A school is an educational institution 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. 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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Dougherty Valley High School (commonly Dougherty, Dougherty Valley, Dougherty Valley High, DVHS, or DV High) is a public high school located in the Windemere development of San Ramon, California, United States. The valley name comes from James Witt Dougherty, a 19th-century landowner and local politician.

It is one of four high schools in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District (SRVUSD), along with California High School, San Ramon Valley High School, and Monte Vista High School. Constructed by Shapell Industries of California and Windemere Ranch Partners BLC, Dougherty was the first developer-built school in the SRVUSD. The school opened its doors in 2007. (Full article...)

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Stuyvesant High School (IPA: /ˈstаɪvɛsənt/), commonly referred to as Stuy (IPA: /ˈstаɪ/), is a New York City public high school that specializes in mathematics and science. It is one of the most competitive public high schools in the United States, sending more students to some of the nation's most prestigious universities than most other public or private schools. Stuyvesant has produced many notable alumni including four Nobel laureates.

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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 Tanjong Katong Primary School has the most diverse student population among all government-operated schools in Singapore, as its students come from 39 countries?

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Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya (born Pandit Giridhar on 14 January 1950) is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, educator, Sanskrit scholar, polyglot, poet, author, textual commentator, philosopher, composer, singer, playwright and Katha artist based in Chitrakoot, India. He is one of four incumbent Jagadguru Ramanandacharya, and has held this title since 1988.

Rambhadracharya is the founder and head of Tulsi Peeth, a religious and social service institution in Chitrakoot named after Saint Tulsidas. He is the founder and lifelong chancellor of the Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University in Chitrakoot, which offers graduate and postgraduate courses exclusively to four types of disabled students. Rambhadracharya has been blind since the age of two months, had no formal education until the age of seventeen years, and has never used Braille or any other aid to learn or compose. (Full article...)

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... that Oglethorpe County High School worked with the University of Georgia to bring their dropout rate from 65 dropouts in 1985–86 to just 4 in 1987–88?
... that, after being elected as the first transgender city councilor of Belo Horizonte, Duda Salabert was fired from her job as a teacher when the school where she worked received a threatening email?
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... that Boris Johnson and Tony Fernandes were present at the opening ceremony of Epsom College in Malaysia in 2014?
... that W. A. F. J. Tumbelaka once expelled his children from the University of Indonesia after they failed to pass an evaluation?
... 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?
... that Julie Croteau is credited as being the first woman to play National Collegiate Athletic Association men's college baseball?
... that Ken Johannson became the captain of the University of North Dakota ice hockey team despite attending the school on a football scholarship?

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Image 1The Oberlin Conservatory of Music shares its campus with Oberlin College. (from Music school)
Image 2To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 3Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 4Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 5Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University, has more than 1,600 students (from Music school)
Image 6Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 7The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 8A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 9Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. (from Music school)
Image 10Vocational school in Nurmijärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 11Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 12Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 13Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 14King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 15City College of New York (from College)
Image 16Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 17St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 18Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 19Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 20World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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Image 21The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 22Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 23RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka. (from College)
Image 24Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 25A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 26West 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 27György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 28Loyola 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 29Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 30Pomona College (from College)
Image 31Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 32Scripps College (from College)
Image 33King'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 34The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 35The activity of carrying out the flag ceremony at Indonesian schools every Monday morning, With the aim of educating discipline and a sense of national spirit (from School)
Image 36Albert 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 37The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the middle ages. (from History of education)
Image 38Based around the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Notre Dame School was an important centre of polyphonic music (from Music school)
Image 39Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 40Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 41Online class in Greece, October 2021. Online classes have been very common during the early 2020s, due to the mass closures of schools as a result of the Covid pandemic. (from School)
Image 42An online class in Greece. Online classes have been very common during the early 2020s due to Covid pandemic. (from Online school)
Image 43St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 44Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 45Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 46Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 47Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 48Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 49Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 50Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 51A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 52First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 53Vammala's vocational school in Sastamala, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 54One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 55SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 56The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 57Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 58Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)

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