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Appendix B: Agricultural Education in America
Appendix B: Agricultural Education in America
Pages 54-59
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But as was true for most practical skills, agriculture was taught principally by parents, who passed along to their children the skills and knowledge they needed to take over the family farm or manage their own farm. The passage of the Morrill Act in 1862 set the stage for more formal agricultural education.
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Rural educators viewed instruction in science and nature as a way to make public education relevant to rural life. The high school curriculum in many states included agronomy, laboratory and field work, rural engineering, and farm mechanics (Crosby, 19121.
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By the 1915-1916 school year, 28 secondary schools of agriculture at state agricultural colleges, 124 public normal schools, and 74 special agricultural schools receiving state aid offered agricultural instruction. Four hundred twenty-one high schools under state supervision had vocational agriculture departments; about 2,600 public high schools that were not state funded offered agriculture.
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The FFA also provided parents and other members of the community opportunities for involvement in a variety of educational and recreational activities directly linked to local farming and business activities. The growth in the organization closely matched growth in enrollment in vocational agriculture programs.
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First, it aimed federal vocational education funds to meet labor market demand and replaced funds earmarked for specific occupational areas with one block grant. The practical results of this were that vocational agriculture had to compete for funds with seven other occupational areas, and labor market projections came to drive state funding allocations.
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At this point, the term supervised farming was changed to the still-current "supervised occupational experience," a term that encompasses a far broader range of activities, including construction, secretarial work, and agricultural research (Crawford and Cooper, 19864. Later changes in federal legislation have placed further emphasis on the special needs of women, members of minority groups, and handicapped and disadvantaged students.
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