Worcester State University
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Worcester State University is a public university in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. The fourth largest of the Commonwealth’s nine Universities, WSU enrolls over 4800 undergraduates and nearl
View of the original Worcester State Normal School c. 1890
View of the May Street Building in 2018
View of Sheehan Hall in 2018
View of Coughlin Field in 2018
Normal school
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A normal school, or normal college, trains teachers in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum. Other names include teacher training colleges or teachers' colleges. In Argentina and Mexico, they continue
Worcester State University
…more than 80 undergraduate majors and minors and 32 graduate programs. WSU was one of several Massachusetts State Universities that was founded as a normal school in the 19th century before evolving into a state college in the 1960s and achieving university status in 2012. WSU is administered by the Massachusetts…
"County Normal" above an entrance to the normal school in Viroqua, Wisconsin
An entrance gate at Beijing Normal University, an example of a comprehensive research university established as a normal school
Students of the Beiyang Women's Normal School, an early example of a normal school in China (1912)
Trainee teachers at the college in Salatiga, Java, Indonesia (October 5, 1929)