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The Kanawha County Textbook War, also known as the Kanawha County Textbook Controversy, was a violent school control struggle in the 20th century United States. It led to the largest protests ever in the history of Kanawha County, West Virginia, the shooting of one bystander, and extended school closings. The controversy erupted in 1974 when ...
July 31, 2024 at 10:02 PM. PADEN CITY, W.Va. (AP) — A small West Virginia school will remain open after a judge sided with residents who fought a county superintendent's decision to relocate ...
8-12. Website. Greenbrier Academy. Greenbrier Academy for Girls (GBA) is a therapeutic, college preparatory boarding school in Pence Springs, West Virginia for grades 8-12. Surrounded by a 140-acre (57 ha) campus, the Academy’s main building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. GBA is located in rural southeastern West Virginia.
The college's campus in the early 1930s. Alderson Broaddus University derived its name from the merging of two Baptist institutions in 1932. The older of the two, Broaddus Institute, was founded in Winchester, Virginia, in 1871 by Edward Jefferson Willis, a Baptist minister who named the new school after Rev. William Francis Ferguson Broaddus, a prominent Baptist minister at the time of the ...
The strike, called in response to anger among teachers and other school employees over low pay and high health care costs, involved roughly 20,000 teachers and public school employees and shut down schools in all 55 West Virginia counties, affecting some 250,000 students. It lasted until March 7, 2018. [2] [3]
Washington Irving High School (West Virginia) Booker T. Washington High School (West Virginia) West Virginia Children's Home. West Virginia Colored Children's Home. Weston Colored School. Wilson School (Mannington, West Virginia) Windy Run Grade School. Categories: Defunct schools in the United States by state or territory.
It became a four-year college as New River State College in 1931 and was renamed the West Virginia Institute of Technology in 1941. It began to grant engineering degrees in 1952. [citation needed] West Virginia Tech added a community college in 1966. It began granting the master's degree in engineering in 1978, but no longer offers graduate ...
Old Main at Marshall University. McMurran Hall at Shepherd University. Woodburn Hall at West Virginia University. There are forty-four colleges and universities in the U.S. state of West Virginia that are listed under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. These institutions include two research universities, five ...