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Outline of plans for vocational education in Colorado under the Smith- 

 Hughes Act (&7«<e lid. Vvcat. Kd. [Colo.], Vocat. Bui. 3 {1019), pp. ^8).— This 

 bulletin contains the text of the State acts lehitinf,' to vocational education in 

 Colorado under the Smith-Hughes Act, and an outline of the plans for voca- 

 tional education in 1919-20, including outlines of a 4-year course in vocational 

 home economics, and of 4-year teacher-training courses in vocational agri- 

 culture and lioiue economics. Of tlie funds available for teacher training, 

 approximately 25 per cent will be used for agricultural and home economics 

 subjects, respectively, 19 per cent for trade and industrial subjects, and the 

 remainder held as a reservation to be used for either of the three lines as 

 required. 



The administration of the Sniith-Huf>hes vocational act in Georgia for 

 the second year [1918-19] {Gu. Vocat. Bd. [Bui] 9 [1919], pp. 52, figs. 20).— 

 This report consists of brief accounts on the progress of instruction in voca- 

 tional agriculture and home economics in individual schools, together with 

 statistical data on enrollment, activities of agricultural teachers, agricultural 

 equipment, summaries of project work done in high-scliool vocational depart- 

 ments, and expenditures for vocational education for the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1919. 



Vocational education: Agriculture, home economics, and the trades and 

 industries {N. Dak. Vocat. Ed. Bui. 1 (1919-20), pp. 5.5).— This bulletin out- 

 lines the minimum requirements and general regulations for all-day, part-time, 

 and evening schools for 1919-^0 in North Dakota under the Smith-Hughes Act. 

 The North Dakota Agricultural College is recognized for teacher training in 

 vocational agriculture and home economics and the University of North Dakota 

 for teacher training in home economics. The course in agriculture extends over 

 4 years and consists of 210 unit hours, of which not more than 40 per cent must 

 be given to technical and not more than 10 per cent to pedagtjgical subjects. 

 The course in home economics covers 4 years, consisting of not less than 120 

 semester credit hours and including from 25 to 35 per cent of technical home 

 economics subjects, from 20 to 25 per cent of related science and art subjects, 

 from 10 to 15 per cent of professional subjects, and general subjects for the re- 

 maining time. The texts of the Federal and State vocational education acts are 

 appended. 



In order to insure a wider distribution of financial aid to schools, it Is pro- 

 posed, beginning in July, 1920, that those county agricultural and training 

 schools and special agricultural high .schools receiving State aid be excluded 

 from receiving Federal funds. Such schools must meet the requirements for the 

 fund in these plans and in the State high school manual. Outlines of 4-year 

 type courses for all-day schools of vocational agriculture and homo economics, 

 t>pe courses for evening and part-time schools and classes in home economics, 

 and 4-year teacher-training courses in vocational agriculture and home eco- 

 nomics are included. 



Annual report, 1919 [of the Agricultural Extension Service of Mani- 

 toba] (Manitoba Dept. Agr. and Immigr., Agr. Ext. Serv., 1 (1920), No. 3, pp. 

 56, figs. 6).— This is the ninth annual report on the Agricultural Extension Serv- 

 ice for the Province of :\ranitoba, comprising the work of agricultural societies, 

 extension schools, institute meetings and chautauquas, motion-picture service, 

 traveling Ubraries, exhibitions and denumstrations, women's institutes, boys' 

 and girls' clubs, and agricultural representatives. 



The consolidated rural school, edited by L. W. Rapicer (New York: Charles 

 Scribner's Sons, 1920, pp. XIII-\-5J,5, pis. 32, figs. 2J,).— This, volume, it is stated, 

 has been prepared through the cooperation of leading specialists in this field. 

 It deals with national and rural consolidation, the American rural school— its 



