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All universities in Gaza have been destroyed and most primary schools have been closed or serving as shelters.
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Darializa Avila Chevalier, New York Daily News, 5 May 2024
In the mid-1970s, Nigeria introduced universal primary education, sending a large cohort of children through primary school who otherwise wouldn’t have gone.
—Jim Yong Kim, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
For the same reason, Dr. Deschamps created a primary school for the participants’ children.
—Linnea Fehrm, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2024
The trio would go on to be a shining light for Dunblane, a community scarred by a deadly shooting in 1996 in which a gunman killed 16 children and their teacher at the local primary school.
—Ben Church, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
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Darializa Avila Chevalier, New York Daily News, 5 May 2024
In the mid-1970s, Nigeria introduced universal primary education, sending a large cohort of children through primary school who otherwise wouldn’t have gone.
—Jim Yong Kim, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
For the same reason, Dr. Deschamps created a primary school for the participants’ children.
—Linnea Fehrm, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2024
The trio would go on to be a shining light for Dunblane, a community scarred by a deadly shooting in 1996 in which a gunman killed 16 children and their teacher at the local primary school.
—Ben Church, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
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“Primary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/primary%20school. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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