West Virginia Education
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Lewisburg
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Greenbrier Military Academy was located in this Greenbrier County community.
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rotary blackboard
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On February 21, 1893, the legislature passed a joint resolution recommending schools use this invention of James F. Clark of Greenbrier County.
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The PRT
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This computerized mass transit system has carried WVU students between campuses since the 1970s.
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Barboursville
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Where was Morris Harvey College (now the University of Charleston) originally located?
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Athens
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Concord University is located in this Mercer County community.
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Gilmer County.
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Glenville State College is located in what West Virginia county?
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Charles Frederick Mosteller
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This Clarksburg native became the first chair of Harvard's Department of Statistics in 1957.
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Hamilton Hatter
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This Storer College graduate was the first principal of Bluefield Colored Institute, now Bluefield State College.
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Richard McSherry
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This Martinsburg native was the first president of the Baltimore Academy of Medicine.
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Bethany, Hinton, Huntington, and Parkersburg
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Name the 4 West Virginia towns in which Carnegie libraries were built.
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Fairmont State University
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The West Virginia Folklife Center is located at this college.
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Gretchen Shaffer
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This Morgantown High School math teacher was named the 2010 West Virginia Teacher of the Year.
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DeSales Heights Academy
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In 1864, Sisters of the Visitation established a Catholic school for girls in Parkersburg that later bore this name.
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Seventh Day Baptists
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Salem College (now Salem International University) was founded in 1888 by this religious denomination.
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James E. Morrow
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This man, who served as principal of Marshall College 1872-1873, was the grandfather of Charles Lindbergh's wife Anne.
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180
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Under state law, public school students are required to have this many instructional days in this school year.
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Alexander Campbell
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This man is known as the \"sage of Bethany.\"
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Salem College (now Salem International University).
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Both Jennings Randolph and Cecil Underwood graduated from this Harrison County college.
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Peter Magrath
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In July 2008, this veteran educator was appointed interim president of West Virginia University.
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Horace Mann Middle School
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In March 2011, this middle school orchestra won first place honors in middle school competition Friday during the American String Teachers Association's National Orchestra Festival in Kansas City, Missouri.
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the state levy taxes to support free public schools.
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In 1841, an education convention in Clarksburg offered recommendations for improving Virginia's educational system. Which of the following was recommended by the convention?
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Eric Kincaid
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In September 2007, this Morgantown science teacher was named West Virginia Teacher of the Year for 2008.
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Gerry Kohler
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This Wood County teacher was the 2006 recipient of the National History Teacher of the Year Award presented by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Preserve America.
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Arthur Recht
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On May 14, 1982, this judge issued a 244-page opinion that declared West Virginia''s system of financing public schools unconstitutional.
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Ruth Ann Musick
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This one-time teacher at Fairmont State University, for whom its main campus library is named, founded the West Virginia Folklore Journal in 1951.
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PROMISE
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These scholarships, funded by state lottery revenue, are awarded to high school graduates who meet certain academic requirements.
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Romney
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The West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind is located in this community.
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Kanawha County
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Schools in this county were closed on September 13, 1974, by order of the county school superintendent because of violence surrounding a controversy over textbooks.
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West Virginia Coal Association.
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The Friends of Coal Bowl, a 7-game series between Marshall University and West Virginia University that began 2006, is sponsored by this group.
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James Edward Allen Jr.
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This Elkins native was appointed U.S. Commissioner of Education in 1969.
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The state superintendent of schools
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This member of the Board of Public Works is not an elected official.
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Otis Rice
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n 2003, this man became West Virginia's first historian laureate.
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William W. Trent
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This man served as state superintendent of schools from 1933 to 1957
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Kanawha County
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In 1919, the West Virginia Legislature passed an act that led to opening of the West Virginia Colored Deaf and Blind School in 1926 in this county.
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Bethany College
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This college was originally named Buffalo Academy.
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St. Albans
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Shelton College was located in this Kanawha County community.
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Virgil Lewis
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This Mason County native, who was West Virginia's first state historian and archivist, died on December 5, 1912.
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Fairmont State Normal School
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The Alpha Psi Omega honorary theater fraternity was founded at this West Virginia college in 1925.
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Marshall University Medical School
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In 1977, this school became the third state medical college.
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University of Charleston
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This school was known as Morris Harvey College until 1979.
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West Virginia State University
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Groundbreaking on the first building of this land-grant college, established under provisions of the federal Second Morrill Act of 1890, occurred on August 25, 1891.
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county, state, and federal revenues
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From what tax sources do the public schools draw their support?
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Joseph Ray
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This Ohio County native was the author of the standard math text Ray's Arithmetic.
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Alexander Martin
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This man was the first president of West Virginia University.
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Fairmont
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The Institute for Scientific Research, which is currently working on the space elevator project, is located in this community.
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Mount de Chantal
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This Wheeling school for young women was founded in 1848 by the Sisters of the Visitation.
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Bluefield State College
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On November 21, 1968, a bomb exploded and destroyed the Physical Education building at this college.
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Alexander Campbell
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This West Virginian founded the Disciples of Christ (Christian Church) denomination and established Bethany College, the oldest institution of higher education in the state.
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Amos Dolbear
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This Bethany College professor patented the electrostatic transducer for the telephone and demonstrated it at the 1881 Paris Electrical Exhibition. He lost his 1887 court battle with Alexander Graham Bell over patent infringement and the judge declared Bell the inventor of the telephone.
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Elkins
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Augusta Heritage Center is located in this Randolph County community.
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Bethany College
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The Delta Tau Delta fraternity was founded in 1858 by eight students at this West Virginia college.
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Governor William Marland informed William W. Trent, state superintendent of schools, that the decision was the law of the land and that West Virginia's schools would be integrated as quickly as possible.
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The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision declared segregation in the public school system unconstitutional. Which statement best describes how the government of West Virginia responded to the decision.
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West Virginia University of Technology
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This West Virginia institution of higher learning was once known as New River College.
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Montgomery
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West Virginia University Institute of Technology is located in this community.
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Henry Ruffner
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This Kanawha Valley educator and minister, whose denunciation of slavery in western Virginia was published in 1847, died on December 17, 1861.
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Philippi
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Alderson-Broaddus College is located in this Barbour County community.
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Institute
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West Virginia State University is located in this community.
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Alexander Campbell
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On March 4, 1866, this man, the founder of the Disciples of Christ and Bethany College, died in Bethany.
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West Virginia University
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This institution was originally established as the Agricultural College of West Virginia on April 3, 1867.
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Shepherdstown
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In January 2000, Israeli and Syrian leaders held peace talks in this West Virginia community.
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Asa Gray
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This man, known as \"The Father of American Botany,\" discovered plants new to science as he crossed Cheat Mountain in August of 1843.
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Harrison County
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Salem International University is located in what West Virginia county?
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West Virginia Wesleyan College
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On September 28, 1973, Jay Rockefeller accepted the presidency of this West Virginia College.
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Alexander Campbell
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On September 12, 1788, this founder of Bethany College was born in Ireland.
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Buckhannon
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West Virginia Wesleyan College is located in what Upshur County community?
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Charles Town
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Powhatan College for Young Women (1900-14) was located in this Jefferson County community.
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John W. Davis
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This distinguished educator and civil rights leader served as president of West Virginia State College from 1919 through 1953.
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Bethany College
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This institution of higher education is the oldest permanent West Virginia college which has not changed its name.
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Athens
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This West Virginia community was formerly known as Concord Church.
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Brooke County
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Bethany College is located in what West Virginia county?
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Keyser
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Potomac State College is located in this Mineral County community.
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Alexander Campbell
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What West Virginian founded the Disciples of Christ Church?
