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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
US Senate (NJ3), 2012
In accordance with Rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (the committee) holds legislative jurisdiction over all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to education and student loans and grants. Proprietary schools and institutions…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Higher Education, Federal Aid, Grants
US Senate (NJ3), 2012
In accordance with Rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (the committee) holds legislative jurisdiction over all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to education and student loans and grants. Proprietary schools and institutions…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Higher Education, Federal Aid, Grants
US Senate (NJ3), 2012
In accordance with Rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (the committee) holds legislative jurisdiction over all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to education and student loans and grants. Proprietary schools and institutions…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Higher Education, Federal Aid, Grants
US Senate (NJ3), 2012
In accordance with Rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (the committee) holds legislative jurisdiction over all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to education and student loans and grants. Proprietary schools and institutions…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Higher Education, Federal Aid, Grants
Download full textMolnar, Alex; Garcia, David; Sullivan, Carolyn; McEvoy, Brendan; Joanou, Jamie – Commercialism in Education Research Unit, 2005
This annual report, in its seventh edition, found that Education Management Organizations (EMOs) tend to focus on managing charter primary schools and on enrolling relatively large numbers of students in those schools. Fifty-nine EMOs operate in 24 states and the District of Columbia, enrolling some 239,766 students. The report is the most…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Proprietary Schools, Privatization, Charts
State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. – 1991
A study was undertaken of proprietary school oversight and regulation in order to seek ways to improve state oversight of the proprietary sector. Twenty states participated in the study which used questionnaires sent to key state contact persons, telephone interviews conducted primarily with persons who had received the questionnaires and…
Descriptors: Certification, Consumer Protection, Federal Aid, Postsecondary Education
