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Education's Female Trailblazers

March is National Women’s History Month. In recognition, The 74 is sharing stories of remarkable women who transformed U.S. education.

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Women’s History Month: These Female Trailblazers Changed American Education For You and Your Kids. Do You Know Their Names?

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How Catholic Nuns Brought Education & Female Empowerment to Millions of Children, Women & Immigrants by Teaching Students on the Fringes

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Meet Lucy Wheelock: How an Early-20th-Century Educator Saved Kindergarten for Generations of U.S. Kids — & Founded Her Own College

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Meet Fanny Jackson Coppin: Born Into Slavery, She Graduated From College, Became a Teacher — and Lifted Up Generations of Black Americans

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Meet Ella Flagg Young, First Female School Superintendent of a Major U.S. City — and Ed Reform’s Forgotten Thought Leader

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No One Would Hire Her. So She Wrote Title IX and Changed History for Millions of Women. Meet Education Trailblazer Patsy Mink

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