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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.
ICS Learn, also known as International Correspondence Schools Ltd, is a provider of online learning courses in the UK. [1] It was founded in 1889 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. [ 2 ] The UK branch was set up in 1904, and it now serves around 25,000 current students.
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 Distance Education Accrediting Commission is the primary accrediting body that recognizes online schools, but not all schools on this list are accredited by that agency. During the COVID-19 pandemic , many of the colleges and universities in the United States offered classes entirely online, particularly facilitated via Zoom .
Stratford Career Institute (SCI) is a distance education school established in 1991 that offers at-home vocational training programs to students in North America. Stratford's corporate offices are located in Montreal, Quebec , Canada, with a U.S shipping/mailing office in St. Albans, Vermont .
The International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was a pioneer in post-secondary distance education. [5] It was operated under that name from 1895 until bankruptcy in 1996. I.C.S. is in operation today as the Penn Foster Career School .
The Bryant & Stratton Chain School grew to about 50 schools by 1864. [5] As early as 1892, the University of Chicago operated a correspondence school, a money-making strategy emulated by many other universities. The decline of proprietary colleges was aided by the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917. Also known as the National Vocational Education Act ...
James Ernest Smith, founder of the National Radio Institute. The National Radio School was established in 1914 in Washington, D.C., by James Ernest Smith (1881–1973) and Emanuel R. Haas (1891–1947). 1 Smith was a teacher at McKinley Manual Training School (which was moved in 1926 to its final location now known as McKinley Technology High School).