Register of Advance-in-grade certificates issued to secondary schools, 1906-1967.

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Register of Advance-in-grade certificates issued to secondary schools, 1906-1967.

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This bound volume contains a record of certificates issued to schools when they advanced (or occasionally lowered) their grading sequence. The volume provides the following information about each advance (or lowering) in grade: name of school, certificate number, location of school (usually), dates certificate issued and sent, advanced grade and often former grade, occassionally the school principal's name. The volume begins with certificate number 969; it is unknown whether records of earlier certificates exist. After 1967 the issuance of advance-in-grade certificates was discontinued. At the end of the volume are several lists of syllabi revision committee members, ca. 1911 - 1918.

0.3 cu. ft. (1 volume)

New York State Archives

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New York (State). Education Dept.

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New York State's education system has antecedents in both English and Dutch colonial education. The Dutch, concerned with providing widespread general education, established tax-supported common schools under church and state control in most of New Netherland's communities. Under the English, who established a system of private or church-supported academies, emphasis was placed on advanced education of the elite and the common school system of the Dutch all but disappeared. In 1754 ...

New York (State). Bureau of Secondary School Supervision.

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Certificates were issued to schools when they advanced (or occasionally lowered) their grading sequence. Through 1927 the official designation of grade sequences was determined by the number of years of approved instruction offered beyond the eight grade: junior high (1 year), middle high (2 years), senior high (3 years), high (4 years), academy (4 years in a chartered or incorporated private school - this designation was dropped in favor of high school in 1913). In 1928 an amendment to the Rege...

University of the State of New York

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