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In 1890, Thomas J. Foster, a newspaper editor, founded the school to provide coal miners with education needed to advance in their careers and improve worker safety. [5] At the turn of the century, the school was officially known as the International Correspondence Schools (ICS), and one out of every 27 adults in the U.S. had taken an ICS course.
The legislature gave the Regents responsibility for the New York State Library and New York State Museum in 1844 and 1845, respectively, and in 1889 and 1892 expanded the USNY's responsibilities significantly to include the incorporation and supervision of all libraries, museums, correspondence schools, and other educational institutions.
Penn Foster Career School is a U.S. for-profit, [1] regionally and nationally-accredited [2] [3] distance education school offering career diploma programs and certificate programs. It was founded in 1890 as International Correspondence Schools, or ICS.
Anna Eliot Ticknor (Boston, Massachusetts, June 1, 1823 – October 5, 1896) was an American educator, who launched the first correspondence school in the United States, and pioneered public libraries in Massachusetts.
Those schools and others (including American Correspondence School of Law of Chicago; [7] Columbian Correspondence College of Law in Washington D.C.; New York Correspondence School of Law in New York; and others) were innovative for the time in providing many poor, working-class, women, and ethnic minorities educational opportunities. [8]
The American School of Correspondence (ASC) was founded in 1897. It was located in the Hyde Park, Chicago, neighborhood from 1912 to 1996, [1] when it moved to south suburban Lansing. [2] The L. L. Cooke School of Electricity was an early correspondence course on electrical theory and practice.
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Rutgers Female College, New York City, 1839–1894 State and National Law School , Ballston Spa, 1849–1852; later Poughkeepsie, 1853–1865 Union Graduate College , Schenectady , 2004–2016; merged with Clarkson University [ 11 ] [ 12 ]