1919] AGPJCTTT.TTTRAT. EDTTCATION. 393 



It was necessary to rearrange the schedule of the 11 district agricultural 

 schools to give 50 per cent of the time to agriculture. 



Teacher training for vocational agriculture was organized at the university 

 at the beginning of the second term in 1917. A new division of agricultural 

 education was established in the Georgia State College of Agriculture. The 

 courses given in this division were supplemented by training in pedagogy and 

 social sciences given in the Peabody School of Education, while the scientific 

 and humanistic courses were given in connection with the regularly organized 

 courses in the university. A 3-montbs war emergency course was also intro- 

 duced by the college of agriculture to meet the shortage of available men for 

 teachers. Teacher training in home econonrics was offered at the State Normal 

 School at Athens and the State Normal and Industrial College at jMilledgeville, 

 and was begun in the Smith Georgia Normal School at Valdosta. 



First annual report of the Massachusetts Board for Vocational Education 

 to the Federal Board for Vocational Education (Bui. Bd. Ed. Mass., No. 11 

 {1918), pp. 160, flu'i. ^). — This report comprises a brief description of the voca- 

 tional education work carried on in Massachusetts in 1917-lS under the Smith- 

 Huglies Act, a financial summary of receipts and expenditures of vocational 

 education funds, and a statistical report. These are followed by appendixes, 

 including among others detailed reports on the agricultural work by R. W. 

 Stimson, household arts schools by L. I. Pryor, and plans for agricultural 

 teacher training by W. II. Hart and F. E. Heald, and statistical tables showing 

 the distribution and allotments of benefits from the Smith-Hughes Act, forms 

 of application for allotments, administrative regulations, the text of the State 

 laws relating to the extension of State aided vocational education during the 

 period of the war, and the training and instruction of disabled soldiers and 

 sailors by the Commonwealth and the Federal Government, etc. 



The State Board for Vocational Education approved four separate schools 

 and 10 high school departments for vocational agi-ieultural instruction, and 

 nine all-day and 19 evening schools for vocational home economics instructioi:. 

 Notes are included on the work of each of these approved scliools and depart- 

 ments, including war emergency work. A plan reconnnended for the training 

 of teachers of vocational agriculture is set forth, as well as outlines of several 

 other training courses. 



Annual report of the State Board for Vocational Education for the year 

 ending June 30, 1918 {State Bd. Control Vocat. Ed. [.l//c7(-.], Vocat. Ed. But. 

 209 {1918), pp. iO).— This first report of the Michigan State Board for Voca- 

 tional Education contains a digest of the State law accepting the provisions of 

 the Smith-Hughes Act, the procedure in the organization of the work, and 

 financial and statistical statements. 



The total disbursements from local. State, and Federal funds included .$661.13 

 for a supervisor of agriculture. .$46,441 for salaries of teachers of agriculture, 

 $7,1.57.36 for teacher training in agriculture and home economics at the Michigan 

 Agricultural College, and .$.5,077.97 for teacher training in home economics at 

 the State Normal College. The disbursements of Federal and State funds for 

 home economics amounted to $4,706.67. 



There were 43 schools teaching agriculture aided by Federal and State funds, 

 with an enrollment of 2,535 students in these subjects. Five all-day home eco- 

 nomics schools were attended by 387 students, and four evening home economics 

 schools by 894 students. Eight schools received Federal and State aid for 

 instruction in home- economics. Training courses in agriculture and home eco- 

 nomics were attended by 45 and 81 teachers, respectively. 



