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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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R v Hopley (more commonly known as the Eastbourne manslaughter) was an 1860 legal case in Eastbourne, Sussex, England. The case concerned the death of 15-year-old Reginald Cancellor (some sources give his name as Chancellor and his age as 13 or 14) at the hands of his teacher, Thomas Hopley. Hopley used corporal punishment with the stated intention of overcoming what he perceived as stubbornness on Cancellor's part, but instead beat the boy to death.

An inquest into Cancellor's death began when his brother requested an autopsy. As a result of the inquest Hopley was arrested and charged with manslaughter. He was found guilty at trial and sentenced to four years in prison, although he insisted that his actions were justifiable and that he was not guilty of any crime. The trial was sensationalised by the Victorian press and incited debate over the use of corporal punishment in schools. After Hopley's release and subsequent divorce trial, he largely disappeared from the public record. The case became an important legal precedent in the United Kingdom for discussions of corporal punishment in schools and reasonable limits on discipline. (Full article...)

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Robert College of Istanbul (Turkish: Istanbul Amerikan Robert Lisesi) is one of the most selective independent private high schools in Turkey. The Institution is the oldest American school still in existence in its original location outside of the United States, and has a long list of notable alumni, including Nobel Prize recipient Orhan Pamuk.

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1958 – A fire breaks out at the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois, killing a total of 92 pupils and 3 nuns. The severity of the fire shocks the United States and leads to major improvements in standards for school design and fire safety codes.

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1884 - Moose Jaw School District #1 and Qu'Appelle School District #2 were formally established Dec. 5, 1884 under the new Board of Education for the North West Territories, Canada

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1891 – James Naismith introduces the first version of basketball, with thirteen rules, a peach basket nailed to either end of his school's gymnasium, and two teams of nine players.

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2005 – US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

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Maria Grzegorzewska (18 April 1887 – 7 May 1967) was a Polish educator who brought the special education movement to Poland. Born to a family from the Żmudź region, she was strongly influenced by her parents' beliefs in humanitarianism. After attending clandestine schools to earn her basic education from Polish rather than Russian educators, she obtained her teaching credentials in Lithuania. She continued her education at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and in 1913 joined her countrywoman, Józefa Joteyko in Brussels to study at the International Paedological Faculty. When her studies in Belgium were interrupted by World War I, Grzegorzewska made her way to Paris and earned her PhD from the Sorbonne in 1916.

After the establishment of the Second Polish Republic in 1918, Grzegorzewska returned to Poland intent upon creating programs which addressed the needs of disabled children and introducing educational reforms to improve their lives. In 1919, she began working for the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Public Education, establishing facilities for the care of disabled children, schools for special education, and training programs for teachers. Using her own methodology, she designed curriculum which in 1922 was implemented at the newly founded State Institute of Special Education [pl] (Polish: Państwowy Instytut Pedagogiki Specjalnej). She directed this institute from its founding until her death. (Full article...)

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... that the British University of Nottingham has named a building at their Jubilee Campus after Chinese Communist Party politician Xu Yafen?
... that most blue bloods in college basketball coincidentally wear shades of blue in their uniforms?
... that the Scottish surgeon John Blair was the only dux of his high school to receive his gold medal in the presence of his wife and child?
... that the radio station at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire would go off the air in the middle of the day?
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... that Peter Patton was given the nickname General Patton by the father of his college coach?
... that University of Exeter lecturer Fu Jia and his coauthors said in 2017 that "uniquely for any hotel in China", Fairmont Beijing has three workers who have learning disabilities?
... that Minnesota's Dick Wildung played for back-to-back national championship teams and was twice selected as a consensus All-American?

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Image 1University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 2Pomona College (from College)
Image 3Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 4Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (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 6The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 7King'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 8Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 9Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 10The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 11Aristotle 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 12SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 13A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 14Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 15City College of New York (from College)
Image 16Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 17RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 18The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 19Albert 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 20Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 21Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 22Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 23Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 24Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 25St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 26Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 27Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 28A high school in Milan in the 1920s (from History of education)
Image 29One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 30World 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
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- 0.400–0.449
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(from History of education)
Image 31Istanbul 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 32György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 33To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 34Pazhassiraja College in Pulpally, Kerala, India (from College)
Image 35Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 36Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 37Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 38A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 39Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 40A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 41West 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 42Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 43Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 44Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 45St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 46A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 47Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 48Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 49Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 50Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 51A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 52Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 53Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 54Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 55Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 56A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 57Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 58Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 59Literacy 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 60First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 61Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 62Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy (from History of education)
Image 63Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 64A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 65The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 66Loyola 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 67Scripps College (from College)
Image 68Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 69Established 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 70Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)

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