Shorthand education explained

Shorthand education^[1] is education in shorthand or stenography. Stenography or shorthand has been taught in stenography schools (or shorthand schools) and other institutions, including public schools.^{[2] [3]}

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.^[4]

Methods

A number of methods and procedures exist for teaching shorthand:^[5]

• An analytical method was devised by Frick for Gregg shorthand.^[6] It has been described as "too difficult".^[7]

Stenography schools

There were Graeco-Roman stenography schools.^[8] There were stenography schools in Boston in the 1870s and 1880s^[9] and in Japan before the War.^[10] In Paraguay, there were four stenography schools in 1947.^[11]

United Kingdom

• The Cusack Institute, London^[12]
• The Metropolitan School^[13]

Canada

• St Thomas Business College^[14]
• Central Business College^[15]
• Spencerian School of Shorthand, Montreal^[16]

Stenotype schools and institutes

These schools and institutes^[17] teach stenotypy, the use of a stenotype. As of 1962, stenotype schools were generally not large.^[18] As of 1959, most large cities in the United States had one.^[19] By 1915, they were meeting at a convention.^[20]

• 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.^[21] It was one of the 64 schools in North America certified by the NCRA.^[22] The school was founded in Jacksonville in 1940 by Thyra D Ellis.^{[23] [24] [25]} The Jacksonville school was closed in March 2016.^{[26] [27]}
• Stenotype Institute of Sprinfield^[28] Closed in 1995.^[29]
• Stenotype Institute of South Dakota.^[30] Closed in 1996.^[31]
• Stenotype Institute of New York. Closed in 1986.^[32]
• Stenotype Institute of Washington.^{[33] [34]} Created in 1935^[35] and incorporated in 1938.^{[36] [37]} Still existed circa 1973.^[38]

Literature

There is a periodical called The American Shorthand Teacher. The periodical Dictation was "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Shorthand Teachers".^[39]

Notes and References

1. Bill 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).
2. https://www.nytimes.com/1949/11/13/archives/russians-trained-in-stenography-thousands-of-students-get-lessons.html "Russians Trained in Stenography; Thousands of Students Get Lessons in Public Schools in Single State System"
3. 141 The Westminster Review 191
4. H R Bonner, "Shorthand Systems Taught" (1920) 5 School Life, No 3, August 1, 1920, p 16
5. 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 https://books.google.com/books?id=c1cZe7ioSmcC. 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 https://books.google.com/books?id=MUMiAQAAMAAJ. (1958) 39 Business Education World 25
6. Frick. Teaching Gregg Shorthand by the Analytical Method. 1931. Google
7. (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.
8. Carol Poster in Eriksson, Olbricht and Übelacker (eds). Rhetorical Argumentation in Biblical Texts, Trinity Press, 2002, p 121
9. Srole. A Position that God Has Not Particularly Assigned to Men. University of California. Los Angeles. 1984. pp 72 & 226, and see p 57 https://books.google.com/books?id=kuQEAQAAIAAJ
10. Buchholz, New Ideas from Dead CEOs, 2007, p 184 https://books.google.com/books?id=1Je4AAAAIAAJ
11. Pipin. Paraguay Looks Out at the World. University of Wisconsin--Madison. 1952. p 46. https://books.google.com/books?id=KtQ7AAAAMAAJ
12. "Some Well-known Shorthand Schools: No 1" (1896) 3 The Shorthand Writer 29
13. "Some Well-known Shorthand Schools: No 2" (1897) 3 The Shorthand Writer 36
14. "The Shorthand Schools of Canada: No 1" (1894) 1 The Canadian Shorthand Review 35
15. "The Shorthand Schools of Canada: No 2" (1894) 1 The Canadian Shorthand Review 75
16. "The Shorthand Schools of Canada: No 3" (1894) 1 The Canadian Shorthand Review 104
17. https://books.google.com/books?id=IuxICVhar2YC Stenographic Machines, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission
18. The Computer Tutoring of Stenotypy: A Preliminary Report, 1962, p 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=hcJGfG5GmREC
19. All Hands, November 1959, p 22
20. (1915) 44 The Stenographer and the Photographic World xii
21. "Stenotype Institute: Orlando", The College Board College Handbook, 2009, p 1501. 58 Patterson's Schools Classified 40
22. Web site: Certified Schools . National Court Reporters Association . National Court Reporters Association . January 18, 2007 . National Court Reporters Association.
23. "Stenotype Institute of Jacksonville". The Right Vo-tech School. 1989. p 99
24. https://m.yelp.com/biz/the-stenotype-institute-jacksonville The Stenotype Institute
25. http://www.ccr.edu/images/Guardian_News/TheGuardian1216.pdf The Guardian
26. Web site: Staff . News4Jax com . February 8, 2019 . Former Stenotype Institute owner sentenced for student aid fraud . July 21, 2023 . WJXT . en.
27. Web site: Former Stenotype Institute of Jacksonville owner could face 5 years in prison Jax Daily Record. November 16, 2018. Financial News & Daily Record - Jacksonville, Florida. en. August 22, 2019.
28. Profiles of America. Toucan Valley Publications. 1995. Volume 6: Indiana, Ohio. p 34.
29. https://www2.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/PEPS/docs/closedschoolsearch.xls Department of Education
30. "Stenotype Institute of South Dakota". The Right Vo-tech School. 1989. p 340
31. 1999-2000 Accredited Institutions of Post-Secondary Education: Programs: Candidates. p 539. Google
32. https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/15/nyregion/troubled-new-york-stenotype-school-closes.html "Troubled New York Stenotype School Closes"
33. Doris Armfield, "By the Way . . .", The Sun, Newberry, South Carolina, November 5, 1948, p 1 University of South Carolina
34. "Speed Class at Stenotype Institute of Washington", The Balance Sheet, vols 37-38, p 213. See also vols 29-30 at p 363
35. Frances Coombes Thomson (ed). "Stenotype Institute of Washington". The New York Times Guide to Continuing Education in America. 1972. p 183. https://books.google.com/books?id=N87s-9CPB7kC
36. Hearings on . . . S 3259. June 26 and 29, 1962. p 257
37. Junior Colleges and Specialized Schools and Colleges. 3rd Ed. Porter Sargent. 1959. p 316
38. https://books.google.com/books?id=i81XAAAAYAAJ Law and the Computer
39. https://books.google.com/books?id=YQH72P23nl4C&pg=PA71 May 1897