http://www.pennfoster.edu/why-penn-foster.aspx Here is an interview with Penn Foster CEO Frank Britt and WRKO host Barry Armstrong. This interview is about how there is a lack of skilled workers to fill important jobs in the manufacturing industry, and how Penn Foster helps to solve for this skills gap. WRKO is a talk radio station in Boston, MA.
Penn Foster has offered quality educational opportunities for more than 100 years. Now, with our online courses and programs, we expand the reach of affordable and accredited education for all, enrolling over 150,000 new students each year. Penn Foster's self-paced approach, career-relevant classes and supportive, connected Community allow you to receive an accredited education that suits your lifestyle. With Penn Foster, realize your full potential and gain the confidence to achieve your career goals.
Penn Foster was created in 1890 by newspaperman Thomas J. Foster. It originally provided correspondence courses for coal miners to help them gain the engineering knowledge they needed to earn promotions, but later expanded into many other vocational subject areas. Enrollment in ICS courses grew explosively in the 1890s. Originally founded to provide training for immigrant coal miners eager to qualify as state mine inspectors or foremen, it enrolled 2500 new students in 1894, leaping to 72,000 new students in 1895. By 1906 total enrollments reached 900,000. The growth was due to sending out complete textbooks instead of single lessons, and the use of 1200 aggressive in-person salesmen. By 1916 it was spending $2 million a year on magazine advertising.[1] The dropout rates were high; only one in six made it past the first third of the material in a course. Only 2.6% of students who began a course finished it. The students dropped out because they overestimated the difficulty, had little encouragement, and had poor study habits.There was a stark contrast in pedagogy:
"The regular technical school or college aims to educate a man broadly; our aim, on the contrary, is to educate him only along some particular line. The college demands that a student shall have certain educational qualifications to enter it, and that all students study for approximately the same length of time, and when they have finished their courses they are supposed to be qualified to enter any one of a number of branches in some particular profession. We, on the contrary, are aiming to make our courses fit the particular needs of the student who takes them."
Дата на публикация: 9 февруари, 2026
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