Shorthand education is education in shorthand or stenography. Stenography or shorthand has been taught in stenography schools (or shorthand schools) and other institutions, including public schools.

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.

Methods
A number of methods and procedures exist for teaching shorthand:
An analtical method was devised by Frick for Gregg shorthand. It has been described as "too difficult".

Stenography schools
There were Graeco-Roman stenography schools. There were stenography schools in Boston in the 1870s and 1880s and in Japan before the War. In Paraguay, there were four stenography schools in 1947.

United Kingdom
The Cusack Institute, London
The Metropolitan School

Canada
St Thomas Business College
Central Business College
Spencerian School of Shorthand, Montreal

Stenotype schools and institutes
These schools and institutes teach stenotypy, the use of a stenotype. As of 1962, stenotype schools were generally not large. As of 1959, most large cities in the United States had one. By 1915, they were meeting at a convention.
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. 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. The Jacksonville school was closed in March 2016.
Stenotype Institute of Sprinfield Closed in 1995.
Stenotype Institute of South Dakota. Closed in 1996.
Stenotype Institute of New York. Closed in 1986.
Stenotype Institute of Washington. Created in 1935 and incorporated in 1938. Still existed circa 1973.

Literature
There is a periodical called The American Shorthand Teacher. The periodical Dictation was "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Shorthand Teachers".

Notes and references
Two Hundred Eighty Recent References to the Teaching of Shorthand. University of Wisconsin. 1945. Google
Rockwell. The Teaching, Practice, and Literature of Shorthand. 1884. Google
"Shorthand Systems Taught", Biennial Survey of Education, 1916-18, pp 413 to 428.
Davis. A Study of Shorthand Teaching. Teachers College, Columbia University. 1936. Google
Flood. Brass Tacks of Skill Building in Shorthand: Methods of Teaching Shorthand. Prentice Hall. 1951. Google
Lomax and Walsh. Problems of Teaching Shorthand. Prentice Hall. 1932. Google
Dry and Dry. Teaching Gregg Shorthand and Transcription. J Weston Walch. 1962. Google
Lamb. Your First Year of Teaching Shorthand and Transcription. South-Western Publishing Company. 1961. Google
"Evaluating Stenographic Achievement" (1943) 27 NASSP Bulletin 80
Gregg. The Teaching of Shorthand. 1916. Google
Holland. Principles of Teaching Applied to Pitman's Shorthand. 1952. Google
Leslie. Methods of Teaching Gregg Shorthand. 1953. Google
McNamara. The Methods of Teaching Shorthand. 1915. Google
"Result - Getting Methods in Teaching Stenotypy" (1918) 1 The Stenotypists' Companion, November 1918, p 27
James E Gilbert and Alvin Kent. "Auto-Instruction in a Stenotype Teaching System". Office of Educational Resources, Northeastern University, 02115. U.S. Office of Naval Research, June 1966 - June 1968. Abstract

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