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befiiiiuing of the Smith-Hughes vocational work aiid its progress in the year 

 ended June 30, 1919. The funds available for teacher training under the Smith- 

 Hughes Act were apportioned on the basis of 75 per cent for the University 

 of Kentucky for the training of white teachers and 25 per cent for the Kentucky 

 Normal and Industrial Institute for the training of colored teachers. 



Vocational education in the State of Maine, 1917-18, A. O. Thomas 

 (ilaine Supt. Pub, Schools Rpt., 1918, pp. 12-16). — This is a report on the pro- 

 motion of vocational education in Maine in 1917-18 under the Smith-Hughes 

 Act. The training of teachers of vocational agriculture was conducted at the 

 University of Maine, and the training of teachers of vocational honi-e economics 

 at the State Normal and Training School at Farmington. Four teachers com- 

 pleted the work in agriculture and received certificates and 30 completed the 

 4-year course required for home economics teachers. 



Annual report of the State Board for Vocational Education for 1 9 18-19 

 and plans for 1919-20 (N. C. Bd. Vocat. Ed. Bui. 3 (1919), pp. 60).— Accord- 

 ing to this report the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineer- 

 ing graduated 7 students from the department of vocational education. Nine 

 more completed the 1918 six weeks' summer course and 14 the 1919 summer 

 course at this college. The North Carolina College for Women graduated 10 

 students from the department of teacher training in vocational home economics. 



In accordance with the vocational education act passed by the general 

 assembly of 1919 the governor appointed a new State Board for Vocational 

 Education, with the State Superintendent of Public Instruction as chairman. 

 Statistical data with reference to schools, students, teachers, receipts and 

 expenditures, etc., and the State laws relating to vocational education under 

 the Smith-Hughes Act are included. 



For 1919-20 it was planned to devote 40 per cent of the teacher-training 

 fund to agricultural subjects and 35 per cent to honje economics subjects. 

 It is provided that from 35 to 45 per cent of the time of the 4-year teacher- 

 training course in vocational agriculture for white students shall be given to 

 technical subjects, from 25 to 35 per cent to science, from 20 to 25 per cent 

 to nontechnical and military subjects, and from 10 to 15 per cent to pro- 

 fessional subjects. A suggested 4-year course (grades 8 to 11, inclusive) for 

 vocational schools of agriculture for white students, a 4-year course in agricul- 

 ture for colored schools (grades 6 to 9, inclusive), subjects for type courses for 

 evening classes in home economics, including a budget course in the care and 

 repair of clothing, type courses for part-time classes, including a short unit on 

 the budget, 2-year type courses for all-day home economics schools, 4-year 

 teacher-training courses in vocational agriculture for white students and for 

 colored students, a 4-year teacher-training course in vocational home economics 

 for white students, and a 2-year course for colored students are included. 



Course of study, Missouri high schools, 1919 {[Jefferson City, Mo.]: 

 State Dept. Ed., [1919], rev., pp. 192, figs. 3). — This State course of study in- 

 cludes outlines of a one-unit course in agriculture and a two-unit course in 

 home economics, cooking, and sewing for the high schools of Missouri which 

 can not provide the vocational agriculture or home economics under the Smith- 

 Hughes Act; suggested lists of equipment and library reference books for 

 agi'iculture and home economics, and a synopsis of conditions under which 

 State aid for high schools may be obtained and State legislation for the 

 promotion of vocational education, 1917. The subjects of the agricultural course 

 include farm and garden crops, soils, animal husbandry, farm management, 

 and ornamental gardening. The most important portion of the two-unit home 

 economics course may be selected for a one-unit course, or each unit may be 

 offered individually. 



