Back to School Around the World

Young schoolgirls in China walk past farmers on their way to school. Some farmers' children have to walk 3 hours along a narrow mountain path to get to school.

Palestinian students sit at their school during the first day of the new school year in Gaza.

Pupils salute as their teacher raises the Chinese national flag on the first day of their new semester at Gao'er Hope School located on the top of Xiaohuatan Mountain in Jinan, Shandong province.

Students of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls make their way to the auditorium during the opening of the school in Meyerton.

Students board a school bus on a rural road.

Uros children go to school on a boat near Uros island on Lake Titicaca.

A girl walks with her mother after her first day of school at Shimizu Elementary School in Fukushima.

Amish children head to their newly built schoolhouse in Nikel Mines, PA.

Students attend a ceremony on the first day of classes at Roberto Poland School in Havana.

A Palestinian boy walks to school on the first day of the school year in the West Bank city of Jenin.

Students arrive at PS 36 on Amsterdam Ave in New York City for the first day of school.

School children wait for a train to stop at a railway station in Mumbai.

After flooding, children in Cooch Behar get to school on a makeshift boat.

Indigenous Aetas children walk on a trail to school for the first day of classes in Porac town, Pampanga province, north of Manila.

A woman walks with children to school on the first day in Berlin, Germany.

A student hugs her friend as they sing a song during their first day of kindergarten at HighScope Indonesia in Jakarta.