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Direct linkHampel, Robert L. – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background: Correspondence schools abounded in early 20th-century America. Several hundred for-profit vendors drew the vast majority of the annual enrollments, which peaked at one half million in the mid-1920s. Dozens of well-known universities created home study departments to expand their "extension" work. The handful of good studies…
Descriptors: Correspondence Schools, Correspondence Study, Urban Universities, State Universities
