Acting director of vocational education: L. H. Dennis. Supervisors of agricultural education: H. C. Fetterolf and J. K. Supervisor of home economics education: Lu M. Hartman. Supervisors of industrial education: W. P. Loomis and W. E. Supervisor of continuation schools: M. Claire Snyder. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. The rural districts are beginning.to appreciate and realize the value of teaching vocational agriculture in the public schools. As a consequence the State board has had more requests for schools than it could grant because of the scarcity of properly qualified men to teach agriculture. The supply of teachers, therefore, is the limiting factor in the establishment of more vocational departments of agriculture and rural community vocational schools. During the year a bureau of vocational education was organized with a division of agricultural education. The major portion of the supervisor's time has been devoted to the inspection of established schools. Two hundred and seventy-six visits were made to schools during the year. An annual conference of supervisors of agriculture was held at the State college, 8 group conferences of teachers were held, and special emphasis was placed upon the working up and establishing of new vocational work, including especially the county school work. Forty schools, including county vocational schools, an increase of approximately 17 per cent over last year, were approved for Federal aid and enrolled 1,081 pupils in vocational work. Farmers' night schools were held in many of the vocational schools throughout the State. The average length of these schools was six weeks, and most of them operated one night a week. Each school conducted at least one community day. Most of these were held in the fall, and in connection with the agricultural exhibits contests were conducted. The problem of teacher training in agriculture in Pennsylvania, under the provisions of the Federal vocational education act, has been placed in the department of rural life in the school of agriculture of the Pennsylvania State College. Two new courses were offered: (1) Rural education, (2) rural education seminar. Twenty-two students enrolled in the resident teacher-training courses. The responsibility for itinerant teacher training has been placed in the department of rural life at the State college. A six weeks' summer session, with an enrollment of 278 students, and a special two weeks' course were offered to the agricultural teachers of the State. At the latter all the teachers of agriculture in rural community vocational schools and departments of agriculture in high schools were in attendance. HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION. Two full-time supervisors have charge of the home economics work in Pennsylvania-one in cities of 25,000 population and over anl the other in cities under 25,000. There were 75 all-day schools and classes, of which 28 were independent schools, with an enrollment of 1,000 students; 45 were departments in high schools, with an enrollment of 1,397 students; and 2 were departments in elementary schools, with an enrollment of 44 students. The total enrollment was 2.441. There were 128 teachers of day vocational schools, 3 of whom were employed for 12 months. A number of the independent schools are doing especially good work in rural districts. There were 26 evening centers, with 90 classes, enrolling 1451 students and employing 54 teachers. At the State agricultural college, designated to train vocational teachers of home economics. 49 students were enrolled in the vocational course. A plan of apprentice teaching was inaugurated this past year, by which at the opening of the second semester the seniors were sent to carefully selected vocational schools of the State for six weeks of practice teaching. During their absence the teacher in charge of practice teaching in the college spent her time in the field, supervising their work. No special training for teachers of part-time and evening schools was given, but plans are being made for such training the coming year. Besides several sectional conferences, the annual conference of vocational teachers was held at the State college during the latter part of July, 1920. TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. New classes were established during the year in part-time continuation schools and classes in commercial subjects. The State is now contemplating setting up, for boys looking toward the mining industry, two all-day general industrial schools for occupations carried on above ground, and a two-year part-time cooperative school of the same character. It is planned that these schools will be followed by a five-year evening-school program, in which "instractions in the below-ground mining occupations" will be carried on in connection with a five-year apprenticeship system. But little change has taken place during the year in instructor training. Pennsylvania reports 93 cities having general continuation schools, with a total of 149 centers. Nineteen cities having evening classes, in a total of 44 centers. Twenty-one cities are reported having day schools. The report indicates a need for development in the centers giving evening-school instruction. RHODE ISLAND. Members of State board: R. L. Beeckman, governor; Emery J. San Souci, lieutenant governor; George L. Baker, banker; Joseph B. Bourgeois, priest; E. Charles Francis, banker; Frank Hill, banker; Frederick Rueckert, judge; Frank E. Thompson, educator. Executive officer: Walter E. Ranger, commissioner of education, Providence. State director of vocational education: Walter E. Ranger. PROVISIONS FOR COOPERATION. The total funds available for vocational education and teacher training in Rhode Island for this year increased from twelve thousand to fifteen thousand dollars. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. No courses in agriculture were offered in any of the elementary, grammar, or secondary schools of the State previous to the present school year. The State supervisor of agriculture, who devotes two fifths of his time to teacher training at the Rhode Island Agricultural College, made 30 visits to schools in the interest of vocational agricultural instruction. Individual conferences were held with school men and with one teacher of agriculture in the State. A system of office records was developed and blanks for administration and supervision were worked out. One school was approved for Federal aid and enrolled 24 pupils in vocational work. During the year the directed or supervised practice in agriculture included poultry, potatoes, and gardening. An intensive course for adults was organized and conducted by the teacher of agriculture in connection with the one vocational department of agriculture. The State supervisor of agricultural education is responsible to the State board for the more intimate supervision and direction of teacher training at the Rhode Island Agricultural College. In Deceased. teacher training the work was largely in the field of organization, although the progress made in the year was reasonably satisfactory, in view of the fact that it was very largely experimental and had no foundation and precedence. While consistent effort in the field of training new teachers was made and three men enrolled, the larger part of the work in this field was with teachers already in service. The indications are that progress in promoting vocational agricultural instruction in Rhode Island will always be made slowly. However, it is believed that once such work is established it will become a permanent part of the State educational system. The number of schools maintaining agricultural departments will of necessity be small, because there are in all but 22 high schools in the State, and of this number there are not more than 6 that could be classed as rural. HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION. The supervisor of home economics was loaned by the State agricultural college for one-half time. This time was spent in promotional work, as Rhode Island had no federally aided vocational schools. Help was given to nonvocational work, with the hope of ultimately introducing vocational courses in day, evening, and parttime schools. In the teacher-training course, at the State college of agriculture 35 students were enrolled. Through an arrangement with the State normal school at Providence, the courses in education are taught by the normal school faculty, and the seniors in home economics do their practice teaching at the normal school. TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. In trades and industries the outstanding features have been the reorganization of an all-day industrial school at Westerly to meet the requirements of law. The State gave its support and encouragement to the venture by adding to the reimbursement for salaries of teachers permitted under the Federal law an equal amount, thus relieving the town of all expenses for instruction in vocational subjects, the town paying for general instruction and providing equipment. No other day schools were assisted. Evening schools were continued and a new venture was made at Bristol in a class in ship drawing, attended by employees of the Herreshoff yards. SOUTH CAROLINA. Members of State board: R. A. Cooper, governor; J. E. Swearingen, State superintendent of education; J. N. Nathans, lawyer; W. J. McGarity, city superintendent; S. J. Derrick, college president; H. N. Snyder, college president; E. A. Montgomery, farmer; H W. L. Brooker, superintendent of schools; S. H. Edmunds, superintendent of schools. Executive officer: J. E. Swearingen, State superintendent of education, Columbia. State supervisor of industrial instruction: C. S. Doggett. PROVISIONS FOR COOPERATION. The legislature at its 1919-20 session passed a law authorizing a maximum of $360 aid per school for salaries of teachers of agriculture and gave the State board of education the privilege of making regulations for carrying on this work. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. The State supervisor moved his office to the State department of education the 1st of September, 1919, in order to have more direct contact with the public-school activities of the State. He made 70 visits in all to approved schools, held a three-day conference for the teachers during the summer school at Clemson College, held two regional conferences, gave special attention to adult instruction, prepared student project notebooks on crops and animals, together with a bulletin explaining the methods used in cost accounting, prepared mimeographed materials on classrooms, apparatus, and methods of teaching agriculture, and in cooperation with the teacher-training institution prepared a bulletin, "The agricultural teacher's annual plan of work." The same supervisory force for white schools attends to the supervision of work in colored schools, the supervisor making 16 visits to such schools during the year. One conference of agricultural teachers was held at the colored agricultural and mechanical college. Thirty white schools, an increase of approximately 50 per cent over last year, were approved for Federal aid and enrolled 725 pupils in vocational work. The total income of white pupils from directed or supervised practice in agriculture in 1918-19 was $41,742.58, a return of $1.40 on every dollar expended for salaries of teachers of vocational agriculture, which was $30.275.14. Twelve colored schools, an increase of approximately 140 per cent over last year, were approved for Federal aid and enrolled 170 pupils in vocational work. The total income of colored pupils from directed or supervised practice in agriculture in 1918-19 was $18,425.83. The training of teachers at Clemson Agricultural College continued practically as it was for the previous year. Ten students were enrolled in the courses. Fifteen different teachers were visited by the teacher-training staff and dealt primarily with class-room prob |