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Career Education, 1992
Discusses the history of career colleges and schools for women from their inception in the 1840s. Indicates that private career schools were far ahead of their time in urging women to become skilled and self-supporting. Looks at six business schools and the women who attended them. (JOW)
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational History, Females, Postsecondary Education
Peer reviewedLeinster-Mackay, D. – British Journal of Educational Studies, 1981
The author examines some of the lesser-known private and proprietary schools of late Victorian England which, by academic success and by athletic prowess, strove to emulate the great "public schools." Reasons for some successes and failures and contributions of certain headmasters are noted. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Development, Educational History, Institutional Characteristics
Download full textOffice of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1930
This bulletin contains the statistics of private commercial and business schools for 1928-29. There is a noticeably constant fluctuation in the list of private commercial and business schools. Out of a list of approximately 1,850 private commercial schools of which the Office of Education had record during the period from June, 1925, to June,…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Evening Programs, Average Daily Attendance, Statistical Data
Peer reviewedRavitch, Diane – Teachers College Record, 1991
The reputation of private independent schools began improving as Americans started believing that public schools were not living up to their expectations. Though many states regulate important aspects of private schools, and being private precludes access to public funds, nonpublic schools have significant autonomy and promote diversity and…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent School Relationship, Parochial Schools
Proffitt, Maris M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1935
The information in this bulletin was secured with the help of the State departments of education in locating the schools, and then through direct correspondence with the schools themselves or from catalogs or supplementary material furnished by them. The schools included range from those of elementary grade giving a few fundamental industrial…
Descriptors: Correspondence Schools, Tuition, Private Schools, Proprietary Schools
Benson, Bob – Child Care Information Exchange, 1996
Presents a brief retrospection on the development of child care as a for-profit institution. Suggests that since the late 1960s a series of socioeconomic changes have led to an impressive development of the child care industry. Examines KinderCare and La Petite Academy as examples of successful day care centers and discusses the future of the…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Duryea, E. D., Ed. – History of Higher Education Annual, 1981
The 1981 issue of the "History of Higher Education Annual," which is the first issue, is presented. The first of six articles, "A Message to Lushtamar: The Hilprecht Controversy and Semitic Scholarship in America," by Paul Ritterband and Harold Wechsler describes the impact of disagreement among scholars on the development of…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Catholics, Church Related Colleges, Church Role
