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The Schools portal    Introduction Plato's academy, a mosaic from Pompeii A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students (or "pupils") 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 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 US) and secondary (Middle school in the US) 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 a school of dance. Alternative schools may provide nontraditional curriculum and methods. Non-government schools, also known as private schools may be required when the government does not supply adequate, or specific educational needs. Other private schools can also be religious, such as Christian schools, Gurukula,Hindu School, madrasa, hawzas (Shi'a schools), yeshivas (Jewish schools), and others; or schools that have a higher standard of education or seek to foster other personal achievements. Schools for adults include institutions of corporate training, military education and training and business schools. In homeschooling and distance education, teaching and learning take place independent from the institution of school or in a virtual school outside a traditional school building respectively. Schools are commonly organized in several different organizational models, including departmental, small learning communities, academies, integrated, and schools-within-a-school. (Full article...) Selected article - Entries here consist of Good and Featured articles, which meet a core set of high editorial standards. The front entrance to Boston Latin School on Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston Latin School is a public exam school located in Boston, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1635. It is the first public school and the oldest existing school in the United States. The school's first class included nine students; the school now has 2,400 pupils drawn from all parts of Boston. Its graduates have included four Harvard presidents, eight Massachusetts state governors, and five signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, as well as several preeminent architects, a leading art historian, a notable naturalist and the conductors of the New York Philharmonic and Boston Pops orchestras. There are also several notable non-graduate alumni, including Louis Farrakhan, a leader of the Nation of Islam. Boston Latin admitted only male students at its founding in 1635. The school's first female student was admitted in the nineteenth century. In 1972, Boston Latin admitted its first co-educational class. (Full article...) List of selected articles Baltimore City College Arlington Senior High School Benjamin Franklin High School (New Orleans) Stuyvesant High School North Community High School Stonyhurst College Gordon Parks High School Auburn High School (Alabama) Caulfield Grammar School Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney Johnson Senior High School (Saint Paul, Minnesota) Port Charlotte High School Amador Valley High School Wisbech Grammar School City of London School duPont Manual High School Roswell High School (Georgia) Royal National College for the Blind God's Choice Pūnana Leo Romney Academy Klein Independent School District Whitney High School (Rocklin, California) School District 53 Okanagan Similkameen Scarborough Day School Pathlight School Nan Chiau High School Phillips Exeter Academy Library Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu Carlton le Willows Academy Dougherty Valley High School Barnard Castle School Elizabeth College, Guernsey Direct grant grammar school Union City High School Chetham's School of Music Carre's Grammar School Dr. Holbrook's Military School Albany Free School Brooklyn Free School Benet Academy École L'Odyssée List of Old Guildfordians (Royal Grammar School, Guildford) List of schools in Cardenal Caro List of Benet Academy alumni School for Creative and Performing Arts The Judd School Eastbourne manslaughter History of Baltimore City College Avery Coonley School Pūnana Leo Harvard Girl School belonging Brown v. Board of Education Education in Medieval Scotland Compulsory Miseducation AP Statistics IB Diploma Programme Neda Agha-Soltan Graduate Scholarship Academic All-America Summerhill (book) List of medical schools in the United Kingdom United States Academic Decathlon National Championship University of Wisconsin Experimental College Some Thoughts Concerning Education Selected image Melbourne High School is a selective state school for boys in years 9 to 12 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is currently ranked the second highest scoring school in Victoria, and the highest available for boys. Its sister school for girls is the Mac.Robertson Girls' High School. Alumni range from Sir John Eccles, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, to Nick Green, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in rowing. In this month January Catholic Schools Week starts on the last Sunday of January. 6th 1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome. 12th 1888 – In Nebraska, teacher Minnie Freeman leads thirteen children from her schoolhouse to safety during the Schoolhouse Blizzard. 17th 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. 28th 1986 – Christa McAuliffe, a teacher at Concord High School (New Hampshire), dies in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Selected biography - Major-General Sir Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware KCVO KBE CB CMG (17 June 1869 – 28 April 1949) was a British educator, journalist, and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC), now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). He also served as Director of Education for the Transvaal Colony and editor of The Morning Post. Born in Clifton, Bristol, he graduated from the University of Paris in 1894. After working in various education capacities, he travelled to the Transvaal Colony where, as a member of Milner's Kindergarten, he became Director of Education in 1903. Two years later, Ware became editor of The Morning Post and returned to England. While editor, he expanded the paper and reoriented it to focus on colonial affairs. After several controversies, culminating in a failed effort to purchase an airship for the United Kingdom, Ware was forced to retire in 1911. (Full article...) List of selected biographies John Baldwin (educator) Mary McLeod Bethune Marion L. Brittain Nathan C. Brooks Percy Henn Herbert Armitage James James Morris III Maria Montessori John Dewey Percy Shaw Jeffrey Mary Carpenter Jill Biden Pin Malakul Mary McLeod Bethune Aristotle Adele Zay Béla H. Bánáthy Charles W. Lyons Ethel McGhee Davis Fatima Massaquoi Giovanni Antonio Grassi Heather Knight (educator) J. Havens Richards J. Hunter Guthrie Maria Grzegorzewska Martha Watts Rambhadracharya Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková Arnold Ross Bernard A. Maguire Arthur R. M. Spaid Charles M. Williams (academic) Erasmus Smith Eleanor Sophia Smith Carmen Casco de Lara Castro Francis Dzierozynski James Morris III Francis X. Talbot Marie Smallface Marule Ellen Wilkinson Jules Massenet Did you know... ... that La Martiniere Boys' College (pictured) in Lucknow, India is the only school in the world to be awarded a battle honour? ... that Dougherty Valley High School was the first real-estate developer-built high school in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District? ... that Christian Zheng Sheng College (pictured) on Lantau, Hong Kong, has a dormitory on Cheung Chau from which students take small ferries called kai-tos to get to school? General images The following are images from various school-related articles on Wikipedia. SUNY Purchase College To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. A madrasah in the Gambia Art work during the Renaissance Scripps College A school entrance building in Australia King'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. Graduates of the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg Conservatory include Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. One-room school in 1935, Alabama Carmichael College, Rangpur, which was established by the British rulers. Both higher and secondary education are given to the students here. Primary school students with their teacher, Colombia, 2014 Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) Agnes Scott College Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018. Educational institution of this type in Canton, MI, United States Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland Birkbeck, University of London Parliament Square, Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland. City College of New York Mental Calculations. In the school of S.Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills Loyola School, Chennai, India – run by the Catholic Diocese of Madras. Christian missionaries played a pivotal role in establishing modern schools in India. Chemistry lesson at a German Gymnasium, Bonn, 1988 Saint Anselm College A school building in Kannur, India Based around the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Notre Dame School was an important centre of polyphonic music King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. The University of Otago in New Zealand. Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii } Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Larkmead School in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England. Pomona College First primary school building in Badagry, Nigeria, built in 1845 Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University, has more than 1,600 students György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary The Cold War Albert 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. The Abbey of Cluny Vocational school in Nurmijärvi, Finland The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the middle ages. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music shares its campus with Oberlin College. ESL online learning Ambachtschool West Park Secondary School in Toronto is an example. It was built in 1968 for students with slow learning or special needs. Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) ORT Braude College of Engineering Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia. Private school students in Hnahthial Bowdoin College St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa. Related portals Books Literature Science Society Topics International schools (Select "show" to view) Extended content Lists List of schools by country List of international schools List of choir schools List of the oldest schools in the world List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom List of school-related attacks Wikiprojects WikiProject Schools Wikiproject Education • Wikiproject Education in Australia • Wikiproject Education in Canada • Wikiproject Academics • Wikiproject Alternative education • Wikiproject School Years • School and university projects • Deletion sorting/Schools What are WikiProjects? 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