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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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Whitney High School is a public school located in the southern Placer County city of Rocklin, California, a settlement in the northern Sacramento metropolitan area. Whitney is one of two high schools in Rocklin Unified School District; its counterpart is Rocklin High School. The school is the district's newest educational facility, having opened in 2005 to freshmen and sophomores; Whitney's first freshmen graduated at the end of the 2008–09 school year. That same school year, Whitney was recognized as a California Distinguished School.

The school educates its students using a modified block schedule program that alternates four periods every two days. Students are subject to eight different periods in total. Students at the school are also taught through a standard-based essential skills program, where students must demonstrate mastery of all skills deemed necessary in a class before credits can be earned; additionally, students must achieve a grade higher than C by the year's end, as scores lower than C equate to a "No mark", and the course must be retaken. As of the end of the 2009–10 school year, the high school fielded twenty-three clubs, including an award-winning school yearbook (known as Details), a school newspaper (known as the Roar), and an Emmy winning broadcast program (known as Unleashed). Whitney also ran twenty-three sports teams as of the 2008–09 school year; the football and girls' soccer teams were champions at the 2009 Sac-Joaquin Section Championships for the respective sports. (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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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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Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden (née Jacobs, formerly Stevenson; born June 3, 1951) is an American educator who served as the first lady of the United States from 2021 to 2025, as the second wife of Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States. She was the second lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 when her husband was the vice president. From 2009 to 2024 she was a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College. She was the first first lady to hold a salaried job during the majority of her husband's tenure and the first to carry on with her professional career outside the White House for the majority of her tenure as first lady.

Born in Hammonton, New Jersey, Jacobs grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. In 1977, she married Joe Biden, a widower, and became the stepmother of Beau and Hunter. Biden and her husband also have a daughter, Ashley Biden, born in 1981. Biden has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Delaware and master's degrees in education and English from West Chester University and Villanova University. She returned to the University of Delaware and received a doctoral degree in education. She taught English and reading in high schools for thirteen years and instructed adolescents with emotional disabilities at a psychiatric hospital. Following this, she was an English and writing instructor for fifteen years at Delaware Technical & Community College. (Full article...)

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Image 1Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy (from History of education)
Image 2Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 3Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 4King'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 5Loyola 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 6First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 7Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 8Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 9RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 10Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 11Established 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 12Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 13Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012–2015) (from Online school)
Image 14Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 15Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 16Pomona College (from College)
Image 17György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 18Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 19Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 20Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
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 22One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 23Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatoires (from Music school)
Image 24A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 25SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 26The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 27Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 28The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 29Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 30Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 31Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 32Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 33Scripps College (from College)
Image 34Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 35Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 36To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 37St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 38World 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 39Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 40Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 41A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 42A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 43Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 44Istanbul 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 45Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012–2015) (from Online school)
Image 46Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 47Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 48Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 49A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 50Albert 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 51A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 52Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 53Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 54Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 55Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 56The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 57King's College London, established by royal charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London (from College)
Image 58University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 59Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 60Aristotle 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 61Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 62The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 63City College of New York (from College)
Image 64St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 65A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 66Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 67A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 68A high school in Milan in the 1920s (from History of education)

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