Penn Foster Career School is a U.S. for-profit, regionally and nationally-accredited distance education school offering career diploma programs and certificate programs. It was founded in 1890 as International Correspondence Schools, or ICS. Penn Foster is headquartered in Scranton, Pennsylvania .
14-544: 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. In 1904, Foster expanded his school to the UK; this is now
28-614: A number of awarding bodies, including: ICS Learn was founded in 1889 in Scranton, Pennsylvania by journalist and editor of the Mining Herald*, Thomas J. Foster. Alarmed by frequent mine accidents, Foster advocated better working conditions and stricter safety regulations, which led to Pennsylvania's adoption of the Mine Safety Act of 1885 and the requirement for miners to pass a safety exam. In order to help workers pass
42-550: A separate distance education school called ICS Learn . ICS parent company Intext was acquired by National Education in 1979. ICS became known in the 1980s for its ubiquitous television commercials featuring celebrity spokesperson Sally Struthers , a long recited list of career-skills choices, and the catchphrase "Do you want to make more money? Sure, we all do!" Harcourt General acquired National Education in 1997. Reed Elsevier acquired Harcourt in 2001 and divested its higher education unit to Thomson Corporation . ICS
56-795: Is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of Pennsylvania . It has been published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania since 1877. It is regarded as a prestigious historical journal in the US. Issues from January 2006 forward are available online on the History Cooperatives Web. Past issues, from 1907 through 2004, are freely available through Penn State University 's digital library collections. Issues from 1877 through 2003 are also available on JSTOR . References [ edit ] ^ Heather A. Haveman (2004). "Antebellum literary culture and
70-799: Is a provider of online learning courses in the UK. It was founded in 1889 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The UK branch was set up in 1904, and it now serves around 25,000 current students. Its students are based in more than 100 countries, predominantly in the UK but also across the Middle East, Asia, and Ireland. It has a large share of the market in CIPD Human Resources and Learning & Development courses and online GCSEs and A Levels. It also provides professional qualifications and apprenticeships in accountancy, IT, marketing, procurement, leadership, project management, corporate governance, and finance. ICS Learn courses are accredited by
84-415: The UK in 1904 which is now known as ICS Learn. The US branch is known as Penn Foster Career School and is not connected to ICS Learn. · *This publication was also named The Colliery Engineer and Colliery Engineer and Metal Miner . [REDACTED] Media related to International Correspondence Schools at Wikimedia Commons Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography From Misplaced Pages,
98-488: The creation of a sales force, matriculated approximately 100,000 new students annually in the early 1900s. By 1900, one in 27 Americans had taken a correspondence course with ICS. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography states that it is "by far the largest single educational institution in America’s history". Foster remained the president of ICS until his death in 1936 at age 93. The organisation expanded to
112-1014: The evolution of American magazines" . Poetics . 32 : 5–28. doi : 10.1016/j.poetic.2003.12.002 . Retrieved 20 November 2015 . ^ "Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography | Historical Society of Pennsylvania" . hsp.org . ^ "The History Cooperative | Journals | Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography index" . Archived from the original on 2009-10-25 . Retrieved 2010-02-06 . ^ "The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography" . Retrieved 2010-02-06 . ^ "JSTOR: Browse - The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography" . Retrieved 2010-02-06 . External links [ edit ] Official website Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pennsylvania_Magazine_of_History_and_Biography&oldid=1215498300 " Categories : History of Pennsylvania Publications established in 1877 University of Pennsylvania Press academic journals History of
126-1013: The 💕 Academic journal Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Discipline History of Pennsylvania Language English Edited by Christina Larocco Publication details History 1877–present Publisher Historical Society of Pennsylvania , University of Pennsylvania Press ( United States ) Frequency Triannually Standard abbreviations ISO 4 ( alt ) · Bluebook ( alt ) NLM ( alt ) · MathSciNet ( alt [REDACTED] ) ISO 4 Pa. Mag. Hist. Biogr. Indexing CODEN ( alt · alt2 ) · JSTOR ( alt ) · LCCN ( alt ) MIAR · NLM ( alt ) · Scopus ISSN 0031-4587 LCCN 2006267556 OCLC no. 1762062 Links Journal homepage The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
140-533: The information the student needed and questioned them only on that material. Thomas Coates of Peckville, Pennsylvania, was the first enrolled student of ICS. He enrolled in the complete coal mining course on October 16, 1891. He advanced steadily with the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, and eventually became the mine's superintendent. It enrolled 3,000 new students in 1894 and, with
154-602: The new test, Foster began an advice column in the Mining Herald answering mine safety questions. Unsatisfied with this solution, in 1889 he founded the Colliery Engineer School of Mines, the first distance learning institution in the United States. The organisation changed names several times, settling on International Correspondence Schools of Scranton by 1900. The mission of the school
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#1732772380333168-570: Was renamed Education Holdings 1, Inc. In 2013, Education Holdings 1 filed for bankruptcy; it exited two months later. In 2014 Vistria Group, led by Martin Nesbitt , acquired Penn Foster. In December 2015, Penn Foster acquired a competency-based learning platform built by UniversityNow. Bain Capital purchased Penn Foster in 2018. International Correspondence Schools ICS Learn , also known as International Correspondence Schools Ltd ,
182-490: Was renamed Penn Foster in 2005. Wicks Group, a private equity firm, purchased the school from Thomson Corporation in 2007. In December 2009, Penn Foster Career School was purchased by test preparation and educational support company The Princeton Review , and in 2012 the Princeton Review brand name and operations were bought for $ 33 million by Charlesbank Capital Partners , a private-equity firm. The parent company
196-429: Was to, "provide practical men with a technical education, and technical men with a practical education." To achieve its goal, ICS did not instruct its students by standard textbooks, which it believed often contained extraneous amounts of material and "demand[ed] too great a knowledge of mathematics and other subjects." Instead, ICS created its own specially prepared "Instruction and Question Papers," which provided exactly
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