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The options allow students to take courses at the college level. It is possible for a student to graduate with both an associate's degree and a high school diploma at the same time via PSEO. The PSEO program was created in 1985 in Minnesota, and later adopted by Ohio's Department of Education.
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. 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.
Penn State started offering distance education courses in 1892, when it launched one of the nation's first correspondence study programs to farmers around Pennsylvania. More than one hundred years later, in 1998, the University reaffirmed its commitment to providing accessible learning to all who need it with the launching of Penn State World Campus.
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Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 102.1 (1978): 59-92. online; Issel, William. "Americanization, acculturation and social control: school reform ideology in industrial Pennsylvania, 1880-1910." Journal of Social History 12.4 (1979): 569-590. online; Klein, Philip S and Ari Hoogenboom. A History of Pennsylvania (1973).
In 1995, the school opened a new school branch in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. The third campus of McCann commenced operation in September, 1998, in downtown Sunbury, Northumberland County. The school provided business training in the county, and in the neighboring counties of Montour, Snyder, and Union.
York College of Pennsylvania traces its institutional lineage to the York County Academy, a school opened in the 1770s in downtown York, Pennsylvania that was connected to St. John's Episcopal Church, which was led by Rev. John Andrews, D.D. [5] In 1787, the school received its charter from the General Assembly of Pennsylvania and was incorporated as the York County Academy.