Shorthand educationBill G Rainey, "What's New in Shorthand Education?" (1958) 34 Journal of Business Education 69 (November 1958); (1959) 35 Journal of Business Education 131 (December 1959); (1961) 36 Journal of Business Education 164; (1961) 37 Journal of Business Education 98. "Shorthand Education: First Steps" (1958) 39 The Balance Sheet 298 and 327 (March 1958). is education in shorthand or stenography. Stenography or shorthand has been taught in stenography schools (or shorthand schools) and other institutions, including public schools."Russians Trained in Stenography; Thousands of Students Get Lessons in Public Schools in Single State System". The New York Times. November 13, 1949. p 48.141 The Westminster Review 191
History 809 schools in the United States reported the system of shorthand they taught in 1916 and 1918. The proportion teaching the Gregg system was 54.8% in 1916 and 64.4% in 1918. The proportion teaching any Pitman system was 44% in 1918.H R Bonner, "Shorthand Systems Taught" (1920) 5 School Life, No 3, August 1, 1920, p 16
Methods A number of methods and procedures exist for teaching shorthand:Boynton and Brewington, "How Does the Principal Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Teaching of Shorthand?" (1949) 33 NASSP Bulletin 127 at 131 (Bulletin of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, Chapter 19). Ann Brewington, "Classroom Techniques in Teaching Shorthand" in Price (ed), "Improved Methods of Teaching the Business Subjects", 1945, p 17. Wagner, Improvements in Secondary Business Education Since 1900, University of Colorado, 1949, pp 164 & 165 . Sixth Yearbook of the National Commercial Teachers' Association, 1940, p 440; and Seventh Yearbook, p 314. Teaching Commerce in Junior and Senior High Schools of Texas, 1938, p 94 . (1958) 39 Business Education World 25 An analytical method was devised by Frick for Gregg shorthand.Frick. Teaching Gregg Shorthand by the Analytical Method. 1931. Google It has been described as "too difficult".(1962) National Business Education Quarterly, vols 31-33, 24. See also Gunderson, An Analysis of the Trends in Methods of Teaching Gregg Shorthand in the United States, University of Southern California, 1962.
Stenography schools There were Graeco-Roman stenography schools.Carol Poster in Eriksson, Olbricht and Übelacker (eds). Rhetorical Argumentation in Biblical Texts, Trinity Press, 2002, p 121 There were stenography schools in Boston in the 1870s and 1880sSrole. A Position that God Has Not Particularly Assigned to Men. University of California. Los Angeles. 1984. pp 72 & 226, and see p 57 and in Japan before the War.Buchholz, New Ideas from Dead CEOs, 2007, p 184 In Paraguay, there were four stenography schools in 1947.Pipin. Paraguay Looks Out at the World. University of Wisconsin--Madison. 1952. p 46.
United Kingdom The Cusack Institute, London"Some Well-known Shorthand Schools: No 1" (1896) 3 The Shorthand Writer 29 The Metropolitan School"Some Well-known Shorthand Schools: No 2" (1897) 3 The Shorthand Writer 36
Canada St Thomas Business College"The Shorthand Schools of Canada: No 1" (1894) 1 The Canadian Shorthand Review 35 Central Business College"The Shorthand Schools of Canada: No 2" (1894) 1 The Canadian Shorthand Review 75 Spencerian School of Shorthand, Montreal"The Shorthand Schools of Canada: No 3" (1894) 1 The Canadian Shorthand Review 104
Stenotype schools and institutes These schools and institutesStenographic Machines, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission. 51 FTC 794 at 796 and passim. Statutes and Court Decisions 15 at 16 and passim. The Federal Reporter. Trade Cases. teach stenotypy, the use of a stenotype. As of 1962, stenotype schools were generally not large.The Computer Tutoring of Stenotypy: A Preliminary Report, 1962, p 3 As of 1959, most large cities in the United States had one.All Hands, November 1959, p 22 By 1915, they were meeting at a convention.(1915) 44 The Stenographer and the Photographic World xii Stenotype Institute of Jacksonville. This school, also called the Stenotype Institute, was an Acics accredited private stenography school with two campuses, one in Jacksonville, Florida, and one in Orlando, Florida."Stenotype Institute: Orlando", The College Board College Handbook, 2009, p 1501. 58 Patterson's Schools Classified 40 It was one of the 64 schools in North America certified by the NCRA. The school was founded in Jacksonville in 1940 by Thyra D Ellis."Stenotype Institute of Jacksonville". The Right Vo-tech School. 1989. p 99The Stenotype Institute, YelpThe Guardian, College of Court Reporting The Jacksonville school was closed in March 2016. Stenotype Institute of SprinfieldProfiles of America. Toucan Valley Publications. 1995. Volume 6: Indiana, Ohio. p 34. Closed in 1995.Department of Education Stenotype Institute of South Dakota."Stenotype Institute of South Dakota". The Right Vo-tech School. 1989. p 340 Closed in 1996.1999-2000 Accredited Institutions of Post-Secondary Education: Programs: Candidates. p 539. Google Stenotype Institute of New York. Closed in 1986."Troubled New York Stenotype School Closes", The New York Times, June 15, 1986, p 37 Stenotype Institute of Washington.Doris Armfield, "By the Way . . .", The Sun, Newberry, South Carolina, November 5, 1948, p 1 University of South Carolina"Speed Class at Stenotype Institute of Washington", The Balance Sheet, vols 37-38, p 213. See also vols 29-30 at p 363 Created in 1935Frances Coombes Thomson (ed). "Stenotype Institute of Washington". The New York Times Guide to Continuing Education in America. 1972. p 183. and incorporated in 1938.Hearings on . . . S 3259. June 26 and 29, 1962. p 257Junior Colleges and Specialized Schools and Colleges. 3rd Ed. Porter Sargent. 1959. p 316 Still existed circa 1973.Law and the Computer, 1973, p 119
Literature There is a periodical called The American Shorthand Teacher. The periodical Dictation was "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Shorthand Teachers".May 1897
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