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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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Benet Academy (/ˈbɛnɛt/ BEN-et) is a co-educational, college-preparatory, Benedictine high school in Lisle, Illinois, United States, overseen by the Diocese of Joliet. Founded in 1886, the school was initially established in Chicago as the all-boys St. Procopius College and Academy by Benedictine monks, who also operated the St. Joseph Bohemian Orphanage. In 1898, the orphanage moved to Lisle, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Chicago, to be joined by St. Procopius three years later. In 1926, Benedictine nuns constructed the all-girls Sacred Heart Academy near the orphanage and school in Lisle. The orphanage closed in 1956 to make room for St. Procopius Academy, which separated from the college in 1969. Due to rising costs and waning enrollment, Sacred Heart merged with St. Procopius Academy in 1967 to form Benet Academy on the St. Procopius campus. Since then, numerous building projects have been undertaken to expand Benet's athletics, music, and science programs.

Admission is competitive and relies on entrance exam scores, transcripts, and performance on standardized tests. All students complete a college-preparatory curriculum and may earn college credit through programs including Advanced Placement. As of 2023, Benet's average ACT test score regularly exceeds state and national averages, and more than 99 percent of students go on to college after graduation. The school's academic program has been featured in reports by the Chicago Sun-Times and U.S. News & World Report. (Full article...)

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Eton College, also known simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys, founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. It is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, and is one of the original nine English "public schools" as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. The school has a long list of distinguished former pupils, including eighteen former British Prime Ministers. Traditionally, Eton has been referred to as "the chief nurse of England's statesmen", and is often described as the most famous public school in the world.

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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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Charles Marvin Williams (April 20, 1917 – November 17, 2011) was an American finance professor at Harvard Business School. He was a recognized authority on commercial banking who taught his students using the case method.

Born in Romney, West Virginia in 1917, Williams earned his bachelor's degree from Washington and Lee University and his master's degree from Harvard Business School. He served in the United States Navy during World War II, joining the faculty of Harvard Business School in 1947 and becoming a tenured professor in 1956. He retired from the school's faculty in 1986, concluding a four-decade teaching career. (Full article...)

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... that the intricate seal of Columbia University was the first instance in which both Greek and Latin appeared on a college or university seal?
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... that William Lambdin Prather introduced the phrase "the eyes of Texas are upon you", which was incorporated into the school song of the University of Texas at Austin?

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Image 1King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 2The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 3Loyola 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 4Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 5A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 6Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 7György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 8Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 9First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 10The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 11Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 12Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 13A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 14City College of New York (from College)
Image 15King'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 16A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 17SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 18St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 19Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 20Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 21A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 22Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 23Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 24Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 25Pomona College (from College)
Image 26Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 27Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 28Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 29One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 30Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 31A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 32The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 33Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 34Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 35Bowdoin College (from College)
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 37World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
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- 0.900–0.949
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(from History of education)
Image 38Scripps College (from College)
Image 39Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 40The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 41Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 42West 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 43Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 44Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 45St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 46RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 47Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 48The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 49Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 50Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 51Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 52A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 53Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 54Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 55Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 56Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 57Albert 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)

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