Modern School

Modern School can refer to:

  • The name of a few schools in India: Modern School (New Delhi), Modern School, Lucknow, and Modern School, Nagpur
  • Secondary modern school, a type of secondary school that existed in Great Britain from 1944 until the early 1970s
  • Modern School Movement (Mouvement de l'École moderne), an international education movement started in France and based on the ideas of educator Célestin Freinet
  • Escuela Moderna, Spanish for "modern school", the first school begun by educator and anarchist Ferrer i Guàrdia, in Spain
  • Modern School (United States), a movement of American education based on the ideas of Ferrer i Guàrdia
  • The Modern School, a U.S.-based publication related to the Ferrer i Guàrdia Modern School movement

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