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West Virginia ranks as one of the lowest scoring states for education in the United States. According to The National Assessment of Educational Progress, the state ranks significantly below the national average in mathematics, reading, writing, and science. This is compared to its surrounding states of Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio and ...
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 master's universities , and fourteen baccalaureate colleges , as well as twenty-one associate's colleges .
The West Virginia Constitution of 1872 dismantled the township system, though the State would remain divided into 398 school districts until the County Unit Plan was approved in 1933, which organized schools at the county level. The West Virginia Board of Education was established in 1908. At that time, the Board's members were appointed by the ...
This is a list of high schools in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Locations are the communities in which they are located, with postal location in parentheses if different. Barbour County [ edit ]
University System of West Virginia. The University System of West Virginia was an American educational authority formed by the West Virginia Legislature on July 1, 1989, to oversee the operation of the state's graduate and doctoral degree-granting institutions. It was abolished on June 30, 2000.
History[edit] Fairmont State University’s roots reach back to the formation of public education in the state of West Virginia. The first private normal school in West Virginia was established to train teachers in Fairmont in 1865 by John N. Boyd, the school’s first principal. It was known as the West Virginia Normal School at Fairmont.
Website. www .salemu .edu. Salem University [2] is a private for-profit university in Salem, West Virginia. It has about 250 students on campus and about 600 online students that are enrolled in undergraduate as well as graduate programs. The university was founded by the Seventh Day Baptist Church in 1888.
West Virginia Educational Standards Test. West Virginia Healthy Lifestyles Act of 2005. West Virginia Wing Civil Air Patrol. Categories: West Virginia. Education in the United States by state or territory. Education in the Mid-Atlantic states. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.