AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

The State provides for two full-time supervisors of agriculture, who were located at the teacher-training institution. The State office also had the assistance from time to time of the teacher-training staff in the preparation of bulletins, holding of conferences, improvement of teachers in service, summer courses, etc. Fifty-four schools were visited up to April 1 by the State supervisor of agriculture, while his assistant visited 60 schools and attended 15 board meetings. Two State conferences of teachers and three regional conferences were held. Two bulletins, "Georgia State plan for vocational education" and "The administration of the Smith-Hughes Vocational Act in Georgia," were prepared and published. A monthly news bulletin, entitled "Teaching agriculture in secondary schools," was issued. Three new report blanks, an application for Federal aid, and directions for making reports and for using project outlines were prepared.

Thirty-three white schools, including 11 special agricultural schools, an increase of approximately 59 per cent over last year, were approved for Federal aid and enrolled 1,075 pupils in vocational work. The total income of white pupils from directed or supervised practice in agriculture for 1918-19 was $23,603.70, a return of 53 cents on every dollar expended for salaries of teachers of vocational agriculture, which was $41,106.34. There were held during the year one evening school, with an enrollment of 6, and two parttime classes, with an enrollment of 50.

Six colored schools, an increase of approximately 50 per cent over last year, were approved for Federal aid and enrolled 120 pupils in vocational work. The total income of colored pupils from directed or supervised practice in agriculture for 1918-19 was $8,296.42.

The work in teacher training at the Georgia State College of Agriculture is so organized that both resident and itinerant teacher training were carried on by the same staff. There were three general lines of work for the improvement of teachers in service: (1) The summer-school work for five weeks; (2) special graduate work through summer school; and (3) work with the individual teacher on the job. A practice school was provided for 6 miles from the college. This school was equipped for teaching secondary agriculture. Twelve seniors and 19 juniors were enrolled in the teacher-training work.

Teacher-training work in agriculture was also carried on at the Albany Industrial and Agricultural School. The work was organized so that both resident and itinerant teacher training were carried on by the same staff. This staff consisted of one full-time teacher trainer and one devoting half of his time to the colored work. Three students were enrolled in the teacher-training courses.

The vocational work in Georgia is now well organized and is meeting with the hearty approval and indorsement of the school people of the State.

HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION.

In 1919-20, a full-time supervisor for field work was loaned by the State Agricultural College at Athens. In setting up a State program and preparing literature for use in the schools, she was assisted by the head of the home economies teacher-training department of the college.

In 1919-20 there were 8 all-day home economics departments in white schools, with an enrollment of 210; and 2 in colored schools, with an enrollment of 148. There were also 8 evening centers for white women and 2 for colored, enrolling, respectively, 195 and 48 students. Fully 20 centers for evening or part-time classes are promised for 1920-21. The women's colleges in the State are giving full credit for vocational home economics, and club women in two towns have put up funds for evening work. Four evening and four part-time classes are in mill towns.

Teacher training in home economics for white teachers is conducted in the State Agricultural College, Athens, where a new building has recently been erected for this work, equipped with an apartment for supervised home management and space for the social life as well as instruction of the students. Teacher training in home economics for Negroes is conducted in the Industrial Training School, Albany, and the Normal School, Savannah.

TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

The three types of schools, part-time, day, and evening, have been in operation in Georgia during the past year. The largest evening program has been conducted in the city of Atlanta, in a number of different occupations. Part-time organization has been given quite an impetus during the year through the organization of general continuation work in connection with the cotton mills. Two centers have had part-time trade extension classes. Consideration has been given to the Negro race in all three types of schools. The State has had a half-time supervisor of industrial education and has increased this supervision for the ensuing year to full time. The State has also provided a part-time supervisor, whose work is devoted to trade and industrial education for girls and women. Eleven centers in 8 different cities have offered evening trade-extension work. Twenty-seven centers in 13 cities have had programs of part-time instruction, and day unit courses have been in operation in 4 cities. There has been an increase of 97 per cent in all types of instruction over the previous year. The Georgia School of Technology

has conducted residence teacher-training courses for both shop and related-subjects teachers. The Georgia Industrial College has also organized residence courses for both types of teachers.

IDAHO.

Members of State board: Ramsey M. Walker, banker; J. A. Lippincott, merchant; Mrs. J. G. H. Graveley, housewife; Evan Evans, retired banker; Irvin E. Rockwell, engineer; Ethel E. Redfield, State superintendent of public instruction, ex officio.

Executive officer: Enoch A. Bryan, State commissioner of education.

State director for vocational education: Melvin S. Lewis.

State supervisor for agricultural education: George E. Denman. State supervisor for home economics education: Kate S. North. State supervisor for trade and industrial education: Melvin S. Lewis.

PROVISIONS FOR COOPERATION.

The governor accepted the act October 31, 1917. The formal acceptance by the legislature was by State statute approved March 14, 1919. The State board of education is designated as the State board for vocational education. The State statute pledges an annual appropriation of not less than the sum to which the State is entitled under the Federal act. The appropriation for the biennial period beginning January 1, 1919, is $38,419.77. The expense of administration and supervision may be borne from the State fund.

AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

The professor of agricultural education at the University of Idaho devoted one-fourth of his time to the duties of supervisor for agricultural education. This provided inadequately for supervision of the work undertaken, although the State director shared to some extent the responsibility for supervision of the agricultural work. The appointment of a full-time supervisor for the coming year, with headquarters at the State department of public instruction, is therefore a decided step in advance. Fifty-seven visits were made to schools, making an average of 3 visits to each of the 19 schools; 4 district conferences were held; a 50-page bulletin, dealing with the organization of vocational agriculture and methods of teaching it, was completed and published; a set of mimeographed directions for organizing and conducting project work was issued for distribution to all vocational pupils of the State; and a series of circular letters dealing with matters of current interest relating to work of the State was sent at somewhat irregular intervals to the agricultural teachers. Formal reports were made to the State director upon each supervisory visit made during the year. These reports covered such

matters as enrollment in the schools and vocational classes, organization and equipment of the vocational departments, the teachers schedule, and the general efficiency of the work being done.

Seventeen schools, an increase of approximately 143 per cent over last year, were approved for Federal aid and enrolled 491 pupils in vocational work. The total income of pupils from directed or supervised practice in agriculture in 1918-19 was $9,206.54.

The demand from many quarters for agricultural graduates has been so great and the inducements so attractive in other lines of work that relatively few students in the college of agriculture of the State university have been inclined to make definite preparation for teaching. Thus no men have graduated up to date from the teachertraining course at the State university. However, with the increasing attractiveness of the position of agricultural teacher, under the influence of Federal and State funds, and with a disposition on the part of the State board and its officers to require more thorough preparation on the part of vocational teachers, it is probable that more attention on the part of students will be given in the future to definite preparation for this work. Itinerant-teacher training carried on during the year was only such as was incidental to State supervision. A six weeks' summer session was held at the close of the university year.

As discussed at some length in the State supervisor's annual report one year ago, there is a splendid opportunity for the development of vocational agricultural education within the State of Idaho. Agriculture is decidedly the most important primary industry of the State-possibly more important than all others combined. The agricultural population of the State is, as a whole, intelligent, enterprising, and progressive. The university extension work, the farm bureau movement, and the activities of all other legitimate enterprises for the promotion of agriculture met generally with a ready and favorable response on the part of the farming population. This favorable attitude extended also to the teaching of vocational agriculture in the high schools of the State, and very substantial progress was made in such teaching in the two and one-half years since Federal aid became operative in the State.

HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION.

This year there was a full-time supervisor of home economics in Idaho. Conferences were held at five teachers' institutes, and homeeconomics work in all the high schools of the State has been upgraded by new courses of study and by the services of the supervisor.

There were 5 all-day vocational schools, each a department in a high school, enrolling 98 students, a gain of 3 schools and 43 students over the previous year.

Evening work was started in 2 centers, with 3 classes and an enrollment of 50 women. There were no part-time classes.

At the State university 48 students were enrolled in the teachertraining course. This institution has an especially good opportunity for practice teaching in the high schools of Moscow, but is in need of facilities for carrying on laboratory work in household management.

TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

In trade and industrial education the progress during the year has been marked. This year shows 15 evening classes, with an enrollment of 427 pupils, contrasted with 1 school with 10 pupils last year. Part-time trade schools number 8, with an enrollment of 145, as against 3 schools and 52 pupils last year. Four all-day trade schools were conducted, the enrollment being 50; there were none last year. The forthcoming year will see a material extension of evening, parttime, and all-day trade work. Of the latter, five schools will be added. A skilled investigator from the vocational department is studying the lumber industry in cooperation with the operators, with a view to the introduction of training for woods and mill employees, and training will be established for workers in the railroad shops. These forms of vocational training, together with the work now being carried on for miners, sugar-factory employees, employees of the building industries, and the auto and tractor mechanies establishments, will furnish contacts with the principal lines of industrial occupation in the State.

Teacher training for trade and industrial education is conducted at the Idaho Technical Institute on a resident basis, and training is also given by an itinerant teacher trainer employed by the State board.

ILLINOIS.

Members of State board: Francis W. Shepardson, chairman, director of registration and education; Francis G. Blair, State superintendent of public instruction; Charles Adkins, director of agriculture; Barney Cohen, director of labor; William H. Boys, director of trade and commerce.

Executive officer: Francis G. Blair, State superintendent of public instruction, Springfield.

State supervisor of industrial education: E. A. Wreidt; J. F. Kolb and J. E. Fults, assistant supervisors.

State supervisor of agricultural education: Carl Colvin; J. E. Hill, assistant supervisor.

State supervisor of home economics education: Cora I. Davis; Elizabeth Beyer, assistant supervisor.