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TABLE 3.-Vocational pupils in schools Federally aided: for years ended June 30, 1919

and 1918.

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Includes 1,440 pupils in agricultural schools not classified by sex, i. e., from Michigan 1,243, from North Dakota 197.

2 Includes 485 pupils not classified by sex, i. e., in agricultural schools 266; in trade or industrial evening 45; in trade or industrial all-day 68; and in homé economics all-day 106.

Decrease.

TABLE 4.- Vocational pupils in schools Federally aided, by regions: for year ended June

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SUBJECTS TAUGHT IN VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS.

Table 5 gives a list of subjects taught in vocational trade or industrial evening, part-time, and all-day schools, in evening and parttime home economics schools, and in continuation part-time schools. In this table, subjects have been listed as reported on the State schedules, with minor changes in terminology, and no attempt has been made to combine subjects, or to arrange the list systematically. Where it has seemed quite clear that differences in terminology from State to State, and from school to school, have resulted in the reporting of two or more designations for similar or even identical types of instruction, some few combinations have been made to avoid undue extension of the list.

Subjects taught and number of schools of different types teaching each subject are shown for each State in Table 19.

An examination of these lists will make clear the need for more complete standardization of terminology as regards subjects taught in vocational schools.

TABLE 5.-Subjects taught, number of vocational schools Federally aided teaching specified subjects, by type of school, for year ended June 30, 1919.

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TEACHER-TRAINING INSTITUTIONS-TEACHERS AND ENROLLMENTS.

Summary totals for teacher-training institutions, showing number of institutions reimbursed from Federal funds, number of teachers of vocational teacher-training courses, and number of pupils enrolled in such courses, are given in Table 6. Corresponding details by States are given in Tables 21 to 24.

Courses for training vocational teachers of agriculture were given in 60 institutions reimbursed from Federal funds on account of this particular line of work in the year ended June 30, 1919, the corre

sponding number for the preceding year being 40. For training Vocational teachers of trade or industrial subjects 68 institutions were reimbursed out of the Federal teacher-training fund in the last fiscal year, and 45 in the year preceding; and for training vocational teachers of home-economics subjects the number of institutions reimbursed was 78 for 1919 and 60 for 1918. In 1919, 11 institutions reported teacher training in mixed or not classified subjects.

These several totals do not of course represent in the aggregate different institutions, since in many cases institutions setting up courses for training vocational teachers have covered two and in some cases all three of the several fields of vocational teacher training. The total number of different institutions Federally reimbursed for teacher training as reported in 1919 was 144, the corresponding number for 1918 being 94, as shown in column a of Table 6. State boards and public-school departments, conducting teacher-training courses and reimbursed in part on account of that work from the Federal fund are counted as institutions, along with colleges, normal schools, and other educational institutions. The number of teachertraining institutions Federally reimbursed is given for States in Table 21.

In several States numerous teacher-training centers or classes have been conducted in different localities under central administrative supervision, as, for example, in Massachusetts, where the State board for vocational education and other public school agencies have conducted teacher-training classes in some 54 centers. In other States educational institutions have conducted extension classes in different localities. Such centers or classes, when under single administrative control, are not counted as separate teacher-training schools or institutions.

In 1919 the 144 different teacher-training institutions reported 829 vocational teacher-training teachers, an increase of 205 over the number reported in the preceding year.

Enrollment in teacher-training classes was 7,364 as reported in 1919, giving an increase in enrollment of 775 for the year. Enrollment as reported for agricultural and for home economics teachertraining courses in 1919 was slightly under the enrollment reported for such courses in 1918. For trade or industrial courses the enrollment of 2,774 pupils reported in 1919 was more than double that of 1,101 reported in the preceding year, the increase for the year for this class of pupils being 1,673.

It is believed, however, that the increase of enrollment in strictly Vocational teacher-training courses has been in fact greater than appears from these figures, since in making returns of enrollment for the year ended June 30, 1918, in the case of several States total

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