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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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Benjamin Franklin High School is a charter high school and a magnet high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. Commonly nicknamed "Franklin" or "Ben Franklin", the school was founded in 1957 as a school for gifted children. Ben Franklin is consistently named the No.1 school in the state of Louisiana and has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as No. 15 charter school in the nation. In 1990, it moved to its current location on the campus of the University of New Orleans (UNO) in the Lake Terrace/Lake Oaks neighborhood of Orleans Parish, near Lake Pontchartrain. The school was damaged by several feet of flood water due to Hurricane Katrina in the fall of 2005, and efforts to reopen the school were covered by nationwide news agencies. The school is part of the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB), yet it operates as a charter school and is not administered directly by the agency.

Ben Franklin has a selective admissions process, and according to CBS News is a "magnet for the city's smart and motivated students." Andrew Vanacore, of The Times Picayune, wrote in 2013 that Franklin was "top-notch". It has been named a Blue Ribbon School five times by the U.S. Department of Education, and was ranked 16 on the 2009 "America's Best High Schools" list by U.S. News & World Report. The class of 2008 produced 17 National Achievement Semifinalists, the most of any school in the United States. In 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school as the best public high school in Louisiana and the 64th best in the United States. (Full article...)

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The Boston Latin School is a public exam school founded on April 23, 1635, in Boston, Massachusetts, making it the oldest public school in the United States. The Public Latin School was a bastion for educating the sons of the Boston elite, resulting in the school claiming many prominent Bostonians as alumni. It has produced four Harvard presidents, four Massachusetts governors, and five signers of the United States Declaration of Independence.

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1999 – Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold embarks on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School, killing 12 students and a teacher, as well as wounding 23 others, before committing suicide. It is the fourth-deadliest school killing in United States history.

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1635 – Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the United States, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts

2003 – Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.

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1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he reads a letter in which she expresses fears about nuclear war.

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... that three protesters were killed near a Cape Town school by armed police hidden in a "Trojan Horse" vehicle?

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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided as president or leader for a myriad of African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Division.

She also was appointed as a national advisor to president Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom she worked with to create the Federal Council on Colored Affairs, also known as the Black Cabinet. She is well-known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. It later continued to develop as Bethune-Cookman University. She was the sole African American woman officially a part of the US delegation that created the United Nations charter, and she held a leadership position for the American Women's Voluntary Services founded by Alice Throckmorton McLean. For her lifetime of activism, she was deemed "acknowledged First Lady of Negro America" by Ebony magazine in April 1949 and was known by the Black Press as the "Female Booker T. Washington". She was known as "The First Lady of The Struggle" because of her commitment to promote better lives for African Americans. (Full article...)

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... that research conducted in 2020 found that squirrels are "nearly ubiquitous" on college campuses in the United States and Canada?
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Image 1World 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 2Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 3Pomona College (from College)
Image 4Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 5Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 6Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 7Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 8West 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 9King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 10Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 11King'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 12György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 13Loyola 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 14Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 15Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 16Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 17Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 18SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 19Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 20A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 21First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 22To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 23Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 24St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 25Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 26Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 27Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 28Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 29RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 30Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 31A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 32Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 33The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 34City College of New York (from College)
Image 35Albert 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 36A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 37Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 38A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 39Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 40Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 41The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 42Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 43One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 44The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 45Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 46Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 47A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 48A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 49Scripps College (from College)
Image 50Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 51Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 52The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 53The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 54Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 55St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 56Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 57Birkbeck, University of London (from College)