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School Tales The Series (โรงเรียนผีมีอยู่ว่า)
School Tales The Series (โรงเรียนผีมีอยู่ว่า…) is a 2022 Thai Netflix horror anthology of eight school-set ghost stories adapted from comics, directed by six Thai horror directors, released 10 August 2022.
School Ties
School Ties is a 1992 Paramount drama directed by Robert Mandel, starring Brendan Fraser as David Greene, a Jewish quarterback hiding his religion at a 1950s New England prep school, with Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, and Ben Affleck.
School timetable
School timetable: periodic schedule assigning lessons to timeslots with teachers, class groups, and rooms; an NP-hard timetabling problem, solved by constraint programming, integer programming, and heuristics, with block and traditional schedule formats compared.
School uniform
School uniform: required pupil clothing identifying a school, from blazers to sweatshirts. English tradition since the 1550s; evidence shows little effect on achievement; England caps branded items at 3-4 from September 2026.
School uniforms by country
School uniforms by country covers national policies on required school clothing, required across much of Africa, Asia, and Latin America but rare in Europe and North America.
School uniforms in Japan
School uniforms in Japan (seifuku): gakuran and sailor fuku traditions dating to Gakushuin's 1879 navy-style uniform, now shifting to blazers and genderless options like girls' slacks, adopted by 832 schools in 2023.
School voucher
School voucher: a publicly funded tuition certificate for private schools, proposed by Thomas Paine (1791) and popularized by Milton Friedman; US lottery evidence mostly shows null test-score effects, with Louisiana negative and Ohio college gains positive.
School-Live! (がっこうぐらし!)
School-Live! (がっこうぐらし!, Gakkou Gurashi!) is a zombie-survival manga by Norimitsu Kaihou and Sadoru Chiba, serialized in Manga Time Kirara Forward 2012–2019 across 12 volumes, adapted into a 2015 Lerche anime and a 2019 live-action film.
School-to-prison pipeline
School-to-prison pipeline: US policy framework, also called the STPP, linking zero-tolerance discipline, school policing, and exclusionary suspensions to dropout and juvenile or criminal justice contact, disproportionately affecting Black, Latino, and disabled students.
School's Out (album)
School's Out (1972) is the fifth studio album by the Alice Cooper band on Warner Bros., produced by Bob Ezrin. Its title single hit No. 1 in the UK and No. 7 in the US; the album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and sold over a million copies.
Schoolboy Q
ScHoolboy Q (Quincy Matthew Hanley, born 1986, Wiesbaden, Germany) is a South Central Los Angeles rapper, TDE and Interscope artist, Black Hippy member; Oxymoron (2014) hit Billboard 200 No. 1, with five Grammy nominations and six studio albums through Blue Lips (2024).
Schooled (TV series)
Schooled (2019-2020) is an ABC sitcom, a spin-off of The Goldbergs, set in the 1990s at William Penn Academy where Lainey Lewis (AJ Michalka), Tim Meadows, Bryan Callen, and Brett Dier play teachers. Cancelled after 2 seasons and 34 episodes.
Schoolhouse Rock!
Schoolhouse Rock! is an American series of three-minute animated educational musical shorts on ABC's Saturday morning schedule from 1973, created by ad executive David McCall with composer Bob Dorough, teaching multiplication, grammar, civics, science, and money; revived in the 1990s and streaming on Disney+.
Schoolly D
Schoolly D (Jesse Bonds Weaver Jr., born 1962) is a West Philadelphia rapper whose 1985 single "P.S.K. What Does It Mean?" and self-titled debut album are credited as the first gangsta rap, later known for Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Abel Ferrara film scores.
Schoology
Schoology, marketed as Schoology Learning, is a K-12 learning management system founded in 2009, acquired by PowerSchool in 2019, and used in more than 60,000 schools.
Schools of Buddhism
Schools of Buddhism, also known as branches or sects of Buddhism, are the traditions into which the Buddhist community divided, from early Indian ordination lineages to the modern Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana.
Schools of economic thought
Schools of economic thought are groups of economists who share a broadly common perspective on how to study economic phenomena, emerging organically around shared ideas rather than formal associations.
Schools of Islamic theology
Schools of Islamic theology, also known as Muslim theology, are the doctrinal traditions known collectively as kalam that defend Islamic belief by argument, principally the Sunni Ash'ariyya and Maturidiyya.
Schooner
The Schooner is a North American sailing vessel that emerged in the early 1700s. It was dominant on the Atlantic coast for its fishing and trading.
Schooner (glass)
Schooner (glass): a beer glass named differently by region, 425 ml in most Australian states, 285 ml in South Australia, and a legal two-thirds-pint measure in the UK since 2011.
Schöpf-Schulz-Passarge syndrome
Schöpf-Schulz-Passarge syndrome (SSPS, OMIM 224750) is a rare autosomal recessive ectodermal dysplasia caused by WNT10A mutations, marked by eyelid apocrine hidrocystomas, palmoplantar keratoderma, hypotrichosis, hypodontia, and nail dystrophy.
Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve
Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve (Biosphärenreservat Schorfheide-Chorin), a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in Brandenburg, Germany, designated 1990; 129,161 ha with about 240 lakes, the Grumsin beech forest World Heritage site, and Germany's largest organic farming region.
Schorl
Schorl is the sodium-iron, always-black member of the tourmaline mineral group, making up roughly 95 percent of all tourmaline in nature and first described in 1505.
Schott AG
Schott AG is a German manufacturer of specialty glass, glass-ceramics, and advanced materials, founded in Jena in 1884, headquartered in Mainz, and owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundation.
Schottel
Schottel is a German marine propulsion manufacturer founded by Josef Becker in 1921 and headquartered in Spay on the Rhine, best known for its 360-degree steerable RudderPropeller, of which more than 17,000 units are installed.
Schottky barrier
A Schottky barrier is the potential barrier that forms at a rectifying metal–semiconductor contact, described by Ferdinand Braun in 1874 and explained by Walter Schottky in 1938.
Schottky defect
A Schottky defect is a pair of oppositely charged ion vacancies in an ionic crystal that preserves charge neutrality, lowers density, and occurs typically in salts like NaCl.
Schottky diode
A Schottky diode, also called a Schottky barrier diode, is a semiconductor diode formed by a metal-semiconductor contact instead of a p-n junction, turning on at about 0.3 V and switching very fast.
Schrader valve
The Schrader valve, also known as the American valve, is a spring-loaded tire valve invented by George Schrader in 1891 and now standard on almost all motor vehicles.
Schraga Schwartz
Schraga Schwartz (שרגא שוורץ) is an Israeli molecular biologist who studies RNA chemical modifications, the epitranscriptome, at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.