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edit   The Schools Portal A school (from Greek σχολεῖον - scholeion) is an institution designed to allow and encourage students (or "pupils") to learn, under the supervision of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students often progress through a series of schools: primary school, secondary school, and possibly a university, vocational school or a college. There are also non-governmental schools, called private or independent schools. A school may be dedicated to a particular field, such as a school of economics or a school of dance. Alternative schools and democratic education may provide nontraditional methods and curriculum, or no curriculum, as it were. In homeschooling and online schools, teaching and learning take place outside of a traditional school building. The use of the term school varies by country, as do the names of the various levels of education within the country. More about Schools... edit   Selected article Roswell High School (RHS) is a public high school in Roswell, Georgia, U.S.A. that opened in 1949. Like the city of Roswell, the school bares the name of Roswell King. King founded the cotton mill that would eventually be the economic backbone of Roswell for much of its early history. The school serves the entire city of Roswell west of Georgia 400 and the city of Mountain Park. It also serves small portions of Alpharetta and Milton. With a population of over of 2,436 students in the 2007–2008 school year, RHS is one of the largest schools in the Fulton County School System. It is the second oldest of Fulton County's schools in the northern portion of the county opening between Milton High School, (1921) and Chattahoochee High School (1991). Roswell is currently on its third campus which opened in 1990. Roswell's standardized testing scores have exceeded the national and state averages and it has been named a national and Georgia school of excellence. For the 2005–2006 school year, Roswell's average SAT score was 1663 with the new SAT scoring system, which ranked Roswell third in the Fulton County School System and sixth in Metro Atlanta. The school offers students many extracurricular activities, including a variety of clubs. Students also have the option to compete in 16 different sports comprising 23 varsity level teams. Seven of the Roswell Hornet teams have won state championships, totaling 19 overall. edit   Selected picture Raffles Institution is an independent boys' secondary school in Singapore. Founded in 1823 as Singapore Institution by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, it was consistently ranked as one of the top secondary schools in Singapore in the now-defunct official school rankings released by the Ministry of Education. Notable alumni include Yusof bin Ishak and Benjamin Henry Sheares, the first and second Presidents of Singapore, respectively. edit   In this month November 2nd 1878 – Phillips Academy plays a game of football against Phillips Exeter Academy, starting one of the oldest high school football rivalries in the United States 10th 1900 – Kyunggi High School, the oldest modern secondary school in Korea, opens in South Korea under an edict by King Gojong 20th 1959 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, later the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, and is often the day chosen by countries as their designated day to observe Universal Children's Day. 28th 1966 – The Plowden Report reviews Primary education in England in a wholesale fashion. edit   Wikiprojects WikiProject Schools Wikiproject Education • Wikiproject Education in Australia • Wikiproject Education in Canada • Wikiproject Education in Pakistan • Wikiproject Academics • Wikiproject Alternative education • Wikiproject School Years • School and university projects • Deletion sorting/Schools What are WikiProjects? edit   Good articles Accra Academy Arlington Senior High School Auburn High School (Alabama) Barnard Castle School Bath School disaster Benet Academy Benjamin Franklin High School (New Orleans) Briarcliff High School Caulfield Grammar School Chetham's School of Music City of London School Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu Direct grant grammar school Dougherty Valley High School DuPont Manual High School Garden City High School (Kansas) Gordon Parks High School Hanley Castle High School Hwa Chong Institution Johnson Senior High School (St. Paul, Minnesota) Malvern College North Community High School Norwich School (independent school) Pathlight School Phillips Exeter Academy Library Port Charlotte High School Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney Pūnana Leo Roswell High School (Georgia) Royal Grammar School, Guildford Scarborough Day School School District 53 Okanagan Similkameen Stonyhurst College The Doon School Theodore Roosevelt High School (Kent, Ohio) Union City High School Whitney High School (Rocklin, California) Wisbech Grammar School École L'Odyssée edit   Selected biography John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism. He is also known as the father of functional psychology and was a leading representative of the progressive movement in U.S. schooling during the first half of the 20th century. Dewey founded the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools where he was able to actualize his pedagogical beliefs which provided material for his first major work on education, The School and Society (1899). edit   Did you know... ... that the headmaster of Shardlow Hall (pictured), a school in Derbyshire, played soccer for England? ... that the International High School in Paterson, New Jersey, was built with triple-pane windows to keep out noise from Interstate 80, located just 20 feet (6 m) from the school building? ... that after 175 years in operation the Red Brick School, one of the oldest single room school houses in the U.S., closed in 2008? edit   Categories ▼ Schools ► Schools by association ► Schools by city ► Schools by medium of instruction ► Schools by continent ► Schools by country ► Schools by type ► Alumni by secondary school ► Lists of schools ► School accreditors ► Associations of schools ► Awards given to schools ► School buildings ► School buses ► School colors ► Defunct schools ► Regional education units ► School districts ► School examinations ► Schools in fiction ► Fictional schools ► History of schools ► School museums ► Patrons of schools ► Schools programs ► Relocated schools ► School sex abuse scandals ► Training ships ► Schoolteachers ► School terminology ► School traditions ► School types ► Women's Leadership Schools ► School images ► School stubs ► Wikipedia categories named after schools Educational institutions by year of establishment edit   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 edit   Featured content Amador Valley High School The Avery Coonley School Baltimore City College Eastbourne manslaughter History of Baltimore City College The Judd School Plano Senior High School School for Creative and Performing Arts Stuyvesant High School List of Benet Academy alumni List of Boston Latin School alumni List of schools in Cardenal Caro List of schools in Marlborough, New Zealand List of schools in the Northland Region List of Old Guildfordians (Royal Grammar School, Guildford) edit   Related portals Books Culture Education Library and information science Literature Science Society University edit   Topics edit   Things you can do Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : WikiProject Schools/Article requests Assess : Assessment requests Cleanup : Schools needing cleanup, WikiProject Schools articles to be moved Copyedit : Articles in need of emergency, short term attention, Schools articles needing expert attention Deletion sorting : WikiProject Deletion sorting/Schools Infobox : School articles without infoboxes, UK schools using wrong infoboxes Maintain : Portal:Schools Merge : School articles to be merged Photo : Wikipedia requested photographs of schools Stubs : Stub-Class school articles Other : Join the project and add {{User WikiProject Schools}} to your talk page. Place the project banner {{WikiProject Schools}} on the talk pages of all articles within the scope of the project. Read the pages at Wikipedia:Schools for the current discussions on school policy. edit   Associated Wikimedia What are portals? List of portals Featured portals