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Pages in category "Women's education in California" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
In 1990, Mills became the first and only women's college in the US to reverse a decision to go coed. [7] On May 3, 1990, Mills Trustees announced that they had voted to admit male undergraduate students to Mills. [8] This decision led to a two-week student and staff strike, accompanied by numerous displays of non-violent protests by the students.
In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America (1985). online; Spruill, Julia Cherry. Women's life and work in the southern colonies (1938; reprinted 1998), pp 183-207. online; Woody, Thomas. A History of Women's Education in the United States (2 vols. 1929) vol 1 online also see vol 2 online
Mission High School, founded in 1890, is located in San Francisco.. California is the most populous state of the U.S. and has the most school students, with over 6.2 million in the 2005–06 school year, giving California more students in school than 36 states have in total population and one of the highest projected enrollments in the country. [7]
Think Together is a California-based nonprofit organization that works with school districts and local communities to offer extended learning programs for underprivileged and low-income children. In addition to supplementing in-school programs for students in grades K-12, the organization also offers summer and intersession programs, early ...
Distinguished Young Women, formerly known as America's Junior Miss, is a national non-profit organization that provides scholarship opportunities to high school senior girls. [1] Depending on the schedule of the various state and local programs, young women are eligible during the summer preceding their senior year in high school.
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The Princess: A Medley, a narrative poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, is a satire of women's education, still a controversial subject in 1848, when Queen's College first opened in London. Emily Davies campaigned for women's education in the 1860s, and founded Girton College in 1869, as did Anne Clough found Newnham College in 1875.