continuation school

noun

1. a school providing extension courses for people who have left school in the elementary grades to go to work.

Word History and Origins

Origin of continuation school¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

The library will thus become the center of intellectual activities of the community, a continuation school, a local university.

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In certain sections, Nassau and Hanover for example, state aid came early to the continuation school.

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The Berlin Handwerker Verein is a type of continuation school, sustained not by the state but by an association.

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Girls spending their days in the factory and shop were in need of a refining influence, and this the continuation school afforded.

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Children who have not made satisfactory progress in the Volksschule must, perforce, attend the continuation school for two years.

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