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A school is an educational institution 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. 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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The Academic All-America program is a student-athlete recognition program. The program selects an honorary sports team composed of the most outstanding student-athletes of a specific season for positions in various sports—who in turn are given the honorific "Academic All-American". Since 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-American recognition on male and female athletes in Divisions I, II, and III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as well as athletes in the NAIA, other U.S. four-year schools, two-year colleges, and Canadian universities, covering all championship sports. The award honors student-athletes who have performed well academically while regularly competing for their institution.

It is sponsored by and presented as the Google Cloud Academic All-America® Award, having been previously sponsored by Capital One (2011–18), ESPN The Magazine (2004–2010), Verizon (2000–04) and GTE (1985–2000), and is administered by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). The award was known as the CoSIDA Academic All-America until 1985. The phrases "Academic All-America" and "Academic All-American" are protected trademarks of CoSIDA. (Full article...)

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National Tainan First Senior High School (Chinese: 國立臺南第一高級中學) is a public senior high school in Tainan City, Taiwan. The school was established in 1922 and is often considered one of the most prestigious secondary schools in southern Taiwan. Alumni include former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, director Ang Lee, and head of the Legislative Yuan Wang Jin-pyng.

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May

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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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Arthur Rusmiselle Miller Spaid (July 27, 1866 – March 16, 1936) was an American educator, school administrator, lecturer, and writer. He served as principal of Alexis I. duPont High School (1894–1903) in Wilmington, Delaware, superintendent of New Castle County Public Schools (1903–1913) in Delaware, superintendent of Dorchester County Public Schools (1913–1917) in Maryland, and Delaware State commissioner of Education (1917–1921).

Born in West Virginia, Spaid began his career in education as a schoolteacher in Virginia and as a school administrator in Ohio. After a decade as a principal Spaid became a superintendent; in this role he argued for compulsory education and the consolidation of New Castle County's rural public schools, instituted pay raises for teachers to mitigate a teacher shortage, and served on a committee to revise the state public school system's curriculum. (Full article...)

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... that Jay Owen Light aspired to be an astronaut before becoming the dean of Harvard Business School?
... that programs at a Cleveland public TV station had to be recorded in between school bells and fire drills?
... that the manager of WVSS at the University of Wisconsin–Stout spent about $6,000 of his own money to buy more than 500 classical music CDs to program the station?
... that the world's richest self-made woman, Zhong Huijuan, started out as a middle-school chemistry teacher?
... that it was said that public school teacher Arthur Hathaway Hewitt "'hath-a-way' of striking terror into the hearts of all who dare oppose him"?
... that Ally Condie's dystopian Matched trilogy was inspired by a high school prom?
... that in August 2022, Sarah Oakley became the first female captain to helm the passing out parade at Dartmouth?
... that Albuquerque radio station KRZY broadcast a college football game without permission by smuggling in gear under blankets and disguising an announcer in the opposing team's student section?

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Image 1Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 2First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 3Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 4Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. (from Music school)
Image 5Vocational school in Nurmijärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 6Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 7Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 8Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 9Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 10Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 11The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 12A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 13Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 14György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 15An online class in Greece. Online classes have been very common during the early 2020s due to Covid pandemic. (from Online school)
Image 16Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 17The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 18Vammala's vocational school in Sastamala, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 19Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 20Scripps College (from College)
Image 21World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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Image 22Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 23Pomona College (from College)
Image 24RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka. (from College)
Image 25Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 26The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the middle ages. (from History of education)
Image 27The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 28St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 29Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 30Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 31The activity of carrying out the flag ceremony at Indonesian schools every Monday morning, With the aim of educating discipline and a sense of national spirit (from School)
Image 32A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 33St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 34Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University, has more than 1,600 students (from Music school)
Image 35Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 36Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 37Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 38Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 39City College of New York (from College)
Image 40Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 41A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 42The Oberlin Conservatory of Music shares its campus with Oberlin College. (from Music school)
Image 43Based around the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Notre Dame School was an important centre of polyphonic music (from Music school)
Image 44Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 45To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 46West 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 47Albert 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 48King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 49Online class in Greece, October 2021. Online classes have been very common during the early 2020s, due to the mass closures of schools as a result of the Covid pandemic. (from School)
Image 50Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 51SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 52Loyola 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 53King'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 54Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 55One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 56Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 57Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 58The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)

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