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  2. Women's education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1970. 41.5%. 13.3%. 1980. 49%. 30.3%. The statistics for enrollment of women in higher education in the 1930s varies depending upon the type of census performed in that year. According to the U.S. Office of Education, the total number of enrollment for women in higher education the U.S. in 1930 was 480,802.

  3. School board in Virginia votes to restore Confederate names

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    The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district ...

  4. Blackstone College for Girls - Wikipedia

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    Virginia. , USA. Blackstone College for Girls was a private, religious school for young women in Blackstone, Nottoway County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. The school operated under the auspices of the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South between 1894 and 1950. The Virginia Department of Historic Resources acknowledged ...

  5. Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls - Wikipedia

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    The Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls, a reformatory, opened in 1910 in Bon Air, Chesterfield County as a private charity to confine and train “incorrigible” White girls under the age of eighteen. [1] Black girls were sent to the Virginia Industrial Home School for Colored Girls. Despite its name, the reformatory functioned ...

  6. Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to ...

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    May 10, 2024 at 12:19 PM. Eze Amos/The New York Times via Redux. School board members in Virginia’s Shenandoah County voted early Friday to restore the names of two schools that previously ...

  7. Paid parental leave at schools is so dire that teachers must ...

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    The teaching industry is largely dominated by women: Of the 3.8 million full and part-time public school teachers between 2020 and 2021, 77% were women. Yet, teachers have historically had little ...

  8. Education in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The beginnings of public education in Virginia, 1776-1860; study of secondary schools in relation to the state Literary fund (1917) with many primary documents online; Unger, Harlow. "Encyclopedia of American Education." Facts on File Publishing. 2007. Virginia Department of Education. "Standards of Learning Objectives For Virginia Public ...

  9. Oakcrest School - Wikipedia

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    Oakcrest School is an independent liberal arts school for girls grades 6–12 located in Vienna, Virginia. It is guided by the teachings of the Catholic Church and the spirituality of Opus Dei . In 2023, Niche ranked Oakcrest School 794 out of 4,990 private schools in the United States, making it the 32nd best in Virginia.