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Aschool is theeducational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, thebuilding) designed to providelearning environments for theteaching ofstudents, usually under the direction ofteachers. Most countries have systems of formaleducation, which is sometimescompulsory. 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 theRegional terms section below) but generally includeprimary school for young children andsecondary school for teenagers who have completedprimary education. An institution wherehigher education is taught is commonly called auniversity college oruniversity.

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 orpreschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University,vocational school,college, orseminary 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 aschool district that serves fragments of the southernOkanagan and lowerSimilkameen regions, which includeCawston,Hedley,Keremeos,Okanagan Falls,Oliver, andOsoyoos, totaling to six communities in the district, all of which are inBritish 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 supportsAboriginal 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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Royal College of Colombo, main building in 2006

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TheRoyal College of Colombo (commonly known as Royal College) was founded in 1835 inColombo,Sri Lanka. It is a National School and provides both primary and secondary education. It is considered to be the leading Public School inSri Lanka, producing the firstExecutive President of Sri Lanka, the lastSultan of the Maldives and also threePrime Ministers.

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1878 –Phillips Academy plays a game offootball againstPhillips Exeter Academy, starting one of theoldest high school football rivalries in the United States

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1900 –Kyunggi High School, the oldest modern secondary school in Korea, opens inSouth Korea under an edict byKing Gojong

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1959 – TheUnited Nations General Assembly adopts theDeclaration of the Rights of the Child, later theConvention on the Rights of the Child in1989, and is often the day chosen by countries as their designated day to observeUniversal Children's Day.

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1966 – ThePlowden Report reviewsPrimary education inEngland in a wholesale fashion.

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Francis Xavier TalbotSJ (January 25, 1889 – December 3, 1953) was an AmericanCatholic priest andJesuit who was active in Catholic literary andpublishing circles, and became thePresident of Loyola College in Maryland. Born inPhiladelphia, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1906, and was educated atSt. Andrew-on-Hudson andWoodstock College. He taught for several years inNew York City and atBoston College, before entering publishing as theliterary editor ofAmerica magazine in 1923, of which he became theeditor-in-chief in 1936. While in this role, he was also active in founding and editing several academic journals, includingThought, and establishing various Catholicliterary societies and book clubs. DuringWorld War II, he waschaplain to a Catholic organization that previewed movies for theNational Legion of Decency. He also supportedFranco's rule in Spain because of its support of Catholicism and opposition tocommunism; he also supported the US war effort. He was described as one of the early leaders of therevival of Catholic literature in the United States.

In 1947, Talbot was named the President ofLoyola College in Maryland. He held the office for three years and then was briefly anarchivist atGeorgetown University before becoming a priest and historian ofSt. Aloysius Church. He was then assigned toHoly Trinity Church inGeorgetown, where he died. (Full article...)

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Image 1Bowdoin College (fromCollege)
Image 2SUNY Purchase College (fromCollege)
Image 3A high school inMilan in the 1920s (fromHistory of education)
Image 4Seinäjoki College inSeinäjoki,South Ostrobothnia,Finland, in May 2018 (fromCollege)
Image 5Firstprimary school inNigeria, built in 1845 (fromSchool)
Image 6Ahigh school building inArgos, Greece (fromSchool)
Image 7City College of New York (fromCollege)
Image 8Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky byNikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (fromHistory of education)
Image 9World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008Human Development Report)
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Image 10St John's College, Johannesburg, aboys' school inSouth Africa (fromCollege)
Image 11RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb ofUttara in the capitalDhaka (fromCollege)
Image 12Curtis Institute of Music inPhiladelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatoires (fromMusic school)
Image 13Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills,c. 1920 (fromVocational school)
Image 14Braude College of Engineering (fromCollege)
Image 15Nalanda - teaching platform (fromHistory of education)
Image 16King's College London in 1831, as engraved by J. C. Carter. It is one of the founding institutions ofUniversity of London, established in 1836. (fromHistory of education)
Image 17Birkbeck, University of London (fromCollege)
Image 18St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (fromHistory of education)
Image 19A school building inKannur, India (fromSchool)
Image 20Agnes Scott College (fromCollege)
Image 21A classroom block with schoolbag racks inWestern Sydney, Australia (fromSchool)
Image 22Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is theworld's oldest university in continuous operation. (fromHistory of education)
Image 23Graduates of theSaint Petersburg Conservatory inRussia includePyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,Sergey Prokofiev,Dmitri Shostakovich, andGeorge Balanchine. (fromMusic school)
Image 24Loyola School, Chennai, India – run by theCatholic Diocese of Madras. Christian missionaries played a pivotal role in establishing modern schools in India. (fromSchool)
Image 25King's College London, established byroyal charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of theUniversity of London (fromCollege)
Image 26Established in 1224 byFrederick II, Holy Roman Emperor,University of Naples Federico II in Italy is the world's oldest state-funded university in continuous operation. (fromHistory of education)
Image 27György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (fromVocational school)
Image 28Saint Anselm College (fromCollege)
Image 29Plato's academy,mosaic from Pompeii (fromSchool)
Image 30To curtail violence, some schools have addedCCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools withgang activity or violence. (fromSchool)
Image 31Williams College inWilliamstown,Massachusetts, one of the oldestliberal arts colleges in the United States (fromCollege)
Image 32Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (fromVocational school)
Image 33Corpus Christi College, one of the constituentcolleges of the University of Cambridge inEngland (fromCollege)
Image 34Dansk Skolemuseum (fromHistory of education)
Image 35Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (fromOnline school)
Image 36Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (fromVocational school)
Image 37Ambachtschool (fromVocational school)
Image 38TheIndian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (fromCollege)
Image 39Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school inAustralia (fromCollege)
Image 40Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (fromVocational school)
Image 41A staged example of an online classroom usingJitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (fromSchool)
Image 42Albert Bettannier's 1887 paintingLa Tache noire depicts a child being taught about the "lost" province ofAlsace-Lorraine in the aftermath of theFranco-Prussian War – an example of how European schools were often used in order to inoculateNationalism in their pupils. (fromSchool)
Image 43Mosaic fromPompeii (1st c. BC) depictingPlato'sAcademy (fromHistory of education)
Image 44University of al-Qarawiyyin located inFes,Morocco (fromHistory of education)
Image 45Aristotle and his disciples –Alexander,Demetrius,Theophrastus, andStrato, in an 1888 fresco in the portico of theNational University of Athens (fromHistory of education)
Image 46Scripps College (fromCollege)
Image 47Jacobs School of Music, part ofIndiana University inBloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (fromMusic school)
Image 48TheAbbey of Cluny (fromHistory of education)
Image 49One-room school in 1935,Alabama (fromSchool)
Image 50Sibelius Academy inHelsinki, Finland (fromMusic school)
Image 51A school entrance building in Australia (fromSchool)
Image 52TheUniversity of Otago inNew Zealand (fromCollege)
Image 53Istanbul University (1453) was founded by sultanMehmed II as aDarülfünun. On 1 August 1933, as part ofAtatürk's reforms, it was reorganized and became the Republic's first modern university. (fromHistory of education)
Image 54Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (fromHistory of education)
Image 55Amadrasah in the Gambia (fromSchool)
Image 56Literacy rates in Italy in 1861, shortly after theproclamation of the Kingdom of Italy. Italy lacksLazio and theTriveneto, which were subsequently annexed. (fromHistory of education)
Image 57Oberlin Conservatory of Music atOberlin College inOberlin, Ohio (fromMusic school)
Image 58Pomona College (fromCollege)
Image 59Based aroundNotre-Dame de Paris, theNotre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (fromMusic school)
Image 60Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with apapyrus scroll, fromHerculaneum, 1st century AD (fromHistory of education)
Image 61Educational institution of this type inCanton,Michigan, United States (fromVocational school)
Image 62Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (fromOnline school)
Image 63Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky byNikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (fromSchool)
Image 64Parliament Square,Trinity College Dublin inIreland (fromCollege)
Image 65The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms ofNuuk, the capital city ofGreenland (fromCollege)
Image 66Royal College Colombo, aboys' school located inColombo,Sri Lanka (fromCollege)
Image 67Vocational school inLappajärvi, Finland (fromVocational school)
Image 68A staged example of an online classroom usingJitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (fromOnline school)

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