Handbooks listing educational institutions and certification regulations, 1902-1972.

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Handbooks listing educational institutions and certification regulations, 1902-1972.

The series consists primarily of State Education Department (SED) handbooks (1902-1965) containing lists of component institutions and organizations that make up the University of the State of New York; that is, public and private educational institutions with approved courses of study, or programs that have been incorporated or chartered by SED. Such institutions include colleges and universities; normal schools, (teacher) training schools and classes; academies; business schools; nursing schools; libraries; and historical societies. In addition, the series contains a quantity of annual handbooks specifying the regulations relating to the certification of schoolteachers.

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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 ...