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   International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania - 1891 to the Present. The International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania (ICS) was founded in 1891 in the pages of Colliery Engineer and Metal Miner, a mining journal published in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. [1]

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Penn_Foster_Career_SchoolPenn Foster Career School - Wikipedia

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   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.

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   What is in the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton collection?

   • See History of the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton. The collection contains newsletters, circulars, marketing materials, photographs, scrapbooks, course books, textbooks, documents, and other artifacts from the records of the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton (ICS), dating from 1897 to present.

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   When was International Correspondence School founded?

   • The International Textbook Company incorporated the school in late 1894 and by early 1895, the school was officially known as the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania or ICS for short.

   Records of International Correspondence Schools (ICS) Ltd, 1890

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   Is ICS still a correspondence school?

   • By the 1990s greater educational offerings had reduced the role of correspondence schools, and ICS has changed names a number of times since 1996. The ICS location is currently operated by Penn Foster Career School, which is a regionally and nationally accredited post-secondary distance education school and considers ICS to be its predecessor.

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   Where is ICS located?

   • The ICS location is currently operated by Penn Foster Career School, which is a regionally and nationally accredited post-secondary distance education school and considers ICS to be its predecessor. In 2002, The University of Scranton Weinberg Library was given a collection of ICS materials by the company.

   Library Exhibit: 125th Anniversary of the ... - UofSLibrary News

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4. sites.scranton.edu › library › 2015/09/04Library Exhibit: 125th Anniversary of the International ...

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   Sep 4, 2015 · By early 1895, the school was officially known as the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania or ICS for short. The first class enrolled 500 miners but within eight years, more than 190,000 students had enrolled in a variety of courses.

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   International Correspondence Schools Collection. The International Correspondence Schools of Scranton (I.C.S.) was a pioneer in distance education in the early twentieth century.

6. archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk › data › gb248-ucg233Records of International Correspondence Schools (ICS) Ltd ...

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   The International Textbook Company incorporated the school in late 1894 and by early 1895, the school was officially known as the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania or ICS for short.

7. www.jstor.org › stable › 20093071International Correspondence Schools ofScranton, Pennsylvania

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   Workers who enrolled in correspondence schools sought a type of learning that would give them immediate socioeconomic mobility, they desired to enter the upper echelons of skilled occupations or, more often,