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A school is an 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 organizations. 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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Port Charlotte High School (PCHS) is a public comprehensive U.S. high school located in Port Charlotte, Florida and is located adjacent to Charlotte Technical College. The school opened in 1981 and graduated its first class in 1984. Its mascot is the pirate, and the school motto is "Yes, I am a Pirate." It is operated by Charlotte County Public Schools.

At one point in time, Port Charlotte High School was the largest high school in Charlotte County, with 2,082 students enrolled in grades 9 through 12. Charlotte County Public Schools has "controlled open enrollment" in which students are generally assigned to a specific school by default based on geographic location, but families choose to enroll students at a different school if the selected school is not at capacity. (Full article...)

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The Royal College of Colombo (commonly known as Royal College) was founded in 1835 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is a National School and provides both primary and secondary education. It is considered to be the leading Public School in Sri Lanka, producing the first Executive President of Sri Lanka, the last Sultan of the Maldives and also three Prime Ministers.

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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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... that the headmaster of Shardlow Hall (pictured), a school in Derbyshire, played soccer for England?

... that the International High School in Paterson, New Jersey, was built with triple-pane windows to keep out noise from Interstate 80, located just 20 feet (6 m) from the school building?

... that after 175 years in operation the Red Brick School, one of the oldest single room school houses in the U.S., closed in 2008?

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Dr James in 1905, when Headmaster of Rugby School

Herbert Armitage James, CH (3 August 1844 – 15 November 1931) was a Welsh cleric and headmaster of three leading public schools, who ended his "remarkable scholastic career", as it was later described by Austen Chamberlain, by becoming President of St John's College, Oxford. After an Oxford education and early teaching career at Marlborough College, he was headmaster of Rossall School from 1875 to 1886. It was said that he raised the school "to a pitch of all-round excellence which it had not known before". After suffering from health problems at Rossall, he served as Dean of St Asaph from 1886 to 1889. He returned to teaching in 1889, becoming headmaster of Cheltenham College and remaining in this post until 1895, despite being offered the position of headmaster of Clifton College. He then became headmaster of Rugby School and served there to great acclaim. His Rugby School nickname of "The Bodger" is still in use at the school. He left Rugby School in 1909 to become President of St John's College, Oxford, a position he held until his death 22 years later.

He was a highly respected teacher and preacher, being described as one of the best preachers of his day. He was widely praised for his work at Rossall, Cheltenham, Rugby and St John's. He was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour by King George V in 1926. At a dinner in his honour held to mark this award, attended by over 200 friends and former students, he was described by Austen Chamberlain (the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) as "one of the greatest and most forceful characters who had ever devoted himself to education". The Lord Chancellor, Viscount Cave, also spoke at the dinner to praise James's directness in his opinions and decisions, his weighty judgment, his high character and his kindly nature. (Full article...)

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... that just seven years after being elected to a local school board, Nancy Ross was a candidate for Vice President of the United States?
... that Rico Lebrun refused to submit sketches of Genesis, a mural commissioned by Pomona College, for approval by its board of trustees?
... that when Felicia Schroeder signed to play soccer for the University of South Carolina, the school did not have a sign-language interpreter available for her?
... that Kent Gaydos played quarterback in high school, then wide receiver in college, and in the NFL changed to tight end before going back to receiver, then tight end again, and then receiver once more?
... that football coach Dim Montero was considered such a great recruiter that it was said he "could pick up a rock and find an outstanding football prospect"?
... that a Picasso sculpture at University Village was called "half as high and twice as sexy as the Great Sphinx of Egypt"?
... that three first-team All-Americans – Logan Eggleston, Zoe Fleck, and Asjia O'Neal – played on the University of Texas's NCAA volleyball championship team in 2022?
... that when Ralph Sazio, a Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee, visited Boston University to scout a player, he became so impressed by Dave Viti that he signed him instead?

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Image 1The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 2Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 3St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 4Established 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 5A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 6SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 7Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 8Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 9A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 10One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 11The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
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 13A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 14Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 15First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 16Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 17A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 18Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 19Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 20Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 21Literacy 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 22Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 23A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 24Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 25A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 26Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 27World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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- 0.900–0.949
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(from History of education)
Image 28Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 29University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 30Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 31A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 32The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 33Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 34St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 35King'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 36Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 37Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 38Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 39Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 40To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 41Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012–2015) (from Online school)
Image 42Scripps College (from College)
Image 43Pomona College (from College)
Image 44Albert 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 45Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 46Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 47Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 48King's College London, established by royal charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London (from College)
Image 49Aristotle 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 50Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 51City College of New York (from College)
Image 52Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 53Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 54Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatoires (from Music school)
Image 55RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 56György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 57Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 58Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 59Istanbul 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 60Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy (from History of education)
Image 61Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012–2015) (from Online school)
Image 62The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 63A high school in Milan in the 1920s (from History of education)
Image 64Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 65Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 66Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 67Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 68Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)

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