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The education of women in the United States: A guide to theory, teaching, and research (Routledge, 2014). online; Nash, Margaret A. "The historiography of education for girls and women in the United States." in William J Reese, William J. and John J. Rury, eds. Rethinking the History of American Education (2008) pp 143–159. excerpt
Women's colleges in the United States are private single-sex U.S. institutions of higher education that only admit female students. They are often liberal arts colleges. There are approximately 26 active women's colleges in the United States in 2024, down from a peak of 281 such colleges in the 1960s. [1] [2]
The American College and University: A History (1962), a standard survey online; Thelin, John R. A History of American Higher Education. (Johns Hopkins UP, 2004) online; Veysey Lawrence R. The Emergence of the American University. (1965). Wechsler, Harold S. and Lester F. Goodchild, eds.
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For the past fifty years, there has been a gap in the educational achievement of males and females in the United States, but which gender has been disadvantaged has fluctuated over the years. In the 1970s and 1980s, data showed girls trailing behind boys in a variety of academic performance measures, specifically in test scores in math and science.
U.S. colleges seem to have caught on to the skills-based revolution. After falling for a decade, college enrollment in the U.S. finally ticked up last year, with higher education institutions ...
College enrollment in the U.S. is up for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. Undergraduate enrollment grew 1.2% in the fall of 2023, an increase of 176,000 students, according to the ...
The following is a timeline of women's colleges in the United States. These are institutions of higher education in the United States whose student population comprises exclusively, or almost exclusively, women. They are often liberal arts colleges. There are approximately 35 active women's colleges in the U.S. as of 2021. [1]