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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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Baltimore City College, known colloquially as City, City College, and B.C.C., is a college preparatory school with a liberal arts focus and selective admissions criteria located in Baltimore, Maryland. Opened in October 1839, B.C.C. is the third-oldest active public high school in the United States. City College is a public exam school and an International Baccalaureate World School at which students in the ninth and tenth grades participate in the IB Middle Years Programme while students in the eleventh and twelfth grades participate in the IB Diploma Programme.

The school is situated on a 38 acres (0.15 km²) hilltop campus located in the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood in Northeast Baltimore. The main campus building, a designated National Historic Landmark, is constructed of granite and limestone in a Collegiate Gothic architectural style and features a 200-foot-tall Gothic tower. (Full article...)

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Gordonstoun is a Scottish co-educational independent school famed for having educated three generations of British royalty. Founded as an international school in 1934 by the German educator Dr. Kurt Hahn, it is best-known as the school attended during the 1960s by Charles, King of the United Kingdom, on the recommendation of his father, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who had himself been one of the first students to attend Gordonstoun.

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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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John Baldwin (October 13, 1799 – December 28, 1884) was an American educator, and the founder of Baldwin Institute (later Baldwin University) in Berea, Ohio, which would eventually merge into Baldwin–Wallace College, now Baldwin-Wallace University. He was also the founder of Baker University and Baldwin City, Kansas, and contributed money to start schools in Bangalore, India that are today called Baldwin Boys High School, Baldwin Girls High School and Baldwin Co-Education Extension High School.

Born in Connecticut, Baldwin originally was a teacher in Maryland and Connecticut before moving to Ohio in the late 1820s. He became part of the lyceum movement and situated himself in Berea, Ohio. He opened up Baldwin Institute in 1846 upon seeing the dissolution of the Norwalk Seminary. Nine years later, the Institute became Baldwin University. He moved to Kansas around 1857, laying the foundation for Baldwin City, Kansas, as well as Baker University. In his later life, he purchased a Louisiana plantation and made contributions to education in India late in his life. (Full article...)

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... that psychologist Janis Sanchez-Hucles was only the second person of color to earn a PhD in psychology from the University of North Carolina?
... that Woodrow Wilson, Hermann Collitz, and Carey Thomas all taught at Bryn Mawr College before becoming presidents?
... that Florida State's exclusion from the 2023–24 College Football Playoff prompted an antitrust investigation?

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