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A school is the 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 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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School District 53 Okanagan Similkameen is a school district that serves fragments of the southern Okanagan and lower Similkameen regions, which include Cawston, Hedley, Keremeos, Okanagan Falls, Oliver, and Osoyoos, totaling to six communities in the district, all of which are in British Columbia, Canada. Its main "maintenance department" office is held in Oliver, consisting of ten schools, five of which are elementary, three are high or secondary schools, while two are alternative schools. This district's superintendent is Marcus Toneatto, while 2,665 students attend schools in it; there are 480 employees for the Okanagan Simlkammen school district. Their motto is "Learning Today for Living Tomorrow", and all places within the district are towns or villages.

In addition to the conventional school programs, School District 53 offers three adult learning outlets, an outreach school, three early learning centres, as well as one elementary hockey academy; the district supports Aboriginal people. It provides a school bus transportation service, in order for children to get to their school and home, being responsible to the Director of Facilities. This bus service has been considered for expansion. School District 53 maintains a policy on emergency, which was amended on April 30, 2008. There is also a "smoke-free" policy that was amended on September 26, 2007. (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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Catholic Schools Week starts on the last Sunday of January.

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1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.

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1888 – In Nebraska, teacher Minnie Freeman leads thirteen children from her schoolhouse to safety during the Schoolhouse Blizzard.

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1989 – Stockton massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in California, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life.

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1986 – Christa McAuliffe, a teacher at Concord High School (New Hampshire), dies in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

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Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden (born June 3, 1951) is an American educator who has been the first lady of the United States since 2021 as the wife of President Joe Biden. She was the second lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 when her husband was vice president. Since 2009, she has been a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, and is believed to be the first wife of a vice president or president to hold a salaried job during the majority of her husband's tenure.

Born in Hammonton, New Jersey, Biden grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. She married then widower Joe Biden in 1977, becoming the stepmother of Beau and Hunter. Biden and her husband also have a daughter together, 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, and returned to the University of Delaware for 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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... that Earle M. Chiles, a businessman and philanthropist from Portland, Oregon, was also a senator of the board of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany?
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Image 1Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 2A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 3Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 4Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 5Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy (from History of education)
Image 6György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 7A high school in Milan in the 1920s (from History of education)
Image 8A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 9Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 10Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 11A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 12A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 13Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 14Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 15Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 16Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 17A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 18Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 19Scripps College (from College)
Image 20Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 21Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 22King'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 23Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 24Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 25One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 26University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 27Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 28Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 29Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 30Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 31King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 32The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 33SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 34Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 35Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 36St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 37Istanbul 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 38Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 39Established 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 40Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatoires (from Music school)
Image 41The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 42Loyola 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 43City College of New York (from College)
Image 44Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 45West 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 46Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 47Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 48Pomona College (from College)
Image 49Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
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 51The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 52Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 53Aristotle 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 54The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 55St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 56Pazhassiraja College in Pulpally, Kerala, India (from College)
Image 57Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 58World 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 59Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 60Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 61Literacy 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 62Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 63To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 64First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 65RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 66Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 67Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 68A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 69Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 70A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)

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