TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. In February a teacher-training agent and supervisor was ap pointed for the first time since the acceptance by Kansas of the national vocational act. Under his supervision the field for trade and industrial work is being surveyed, and considerable extension of work along trade and industrial lines has been accomplished during the past year. Thirty-two evening classes in 5 different industrial centers, with a total enrollment of 425 students and 31 teachers, have been aided. One part-time class in salesmanship, with enrollment of 10, and 7 all-day classes have received aid during this fiscal year. The all-day classes aided were at the Pittsburg Manual Training Normal School, Topeka Educational and Industrial Institute, and Western University at Quindaro. Considerable attention has been given to organization of teachertraining courses and classes in foremanship training in Kansas City, Kans. A survey of the industrial activities in Leavenworth, Atchison, Holton, Parsons, Wichita, and Hutchinson is being made, anticipating the organization of some evening work in possibly all of these centers during the next fiscal year. The State plan provides that the Pittsburg State Normal School shall be the institution for training instructors in trade and industrial subjects. No teacher-training classes have been organized in this institution. It is recognized that the most acceptable place in which to do teacher training is the shop itself in the industrial centers, where expert tradesmen can be gathered together in evening classes. KENTUCKY. Members of State board: George Colvin, State superintendent of public instruction; Charles I. Dawson, attorney general; Frank L. McVey, president, State university; Thomas S. Tulley, manufacturer; J. W. Bradner, superintendent of schools. Executive officer: George Colvin, superintendent of public instruction, Frankfort. State director for vocational education: McHenry Rhoads. PROVISIONS FOR COOPERATION. In a letter dated August 31, 1917, the governor of Kentucky accepted the provisions of the Federal vocational act. The regular session of the State legislature in 1918 passed an act of acceptance which was approved March 6. The legislature created a State vocational board, which consists of the superintendent of public instruc tion, attorney general, secretary of state, president of the University of Kentucky, and two other men appointed by the governor; one a superintendent of schools, and the other a farmer or in some other business. In the act of acceptance the professor of secondary education, University of Kentucky, was made director of vocational education. For the year of 1920-21 the sum of $24,987.72 was appropriated for the purpose of carrying on teacher-training work, which appropriation is annually thereafter to be made. The same legislature appropriated $2,500 for inspection and supervision of vocational education. The State legislature in 1920 amended the act of acceptance by striking out the clause making the professor of secondary education, University of Kentucky, director, and placed the entire administration of vocational education with the State board. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. The State board employed a full-time supervisor of agriculture, who made 80 visits to schools, held 4 conferences of teachers, prepared outlines for the course of study in agriculture, and revised the system of keeping records for administrative and supervisory purposes. Thirty-three schools, an increase of approximately 31 per cent over last year, were approved for Federal aid and enrolled 1,104 pupils in vocational work. The teacher-training department at the University of Kentucky added one additional school for observation and supervised practice teaching purposes. Four students were enrolled in the teachertraining courses. A special effort was made during the year to interest students in the vocational teacher-training work. HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION. A full-time State supervisor of home economics education is employed in Kentucky for the year 1920-21. Hitherto supervision has been in charge of a member of the faculty of the University of Kentucky, loaned for that purpose. In 1919-20 ten departments for home economics in white schools, and two in negro schools, were approved for reimbursement. Six new departments have been approved for the year 1920–21. The University of Kentucky, Lexington, is designated for the training of teachers in home economics for white schools, and the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute, Frankfort, for training of teachers of negro schools. Many new features were added to the teacher-training department of the University of Kentucky in 1919-20, notably a cooperative school with the Health Nursing Association, which gave students in dietetics an opportunity to know the needs in home life and practice. Practice housework was also carefully organized to give students a clear conception of home-making duties. Supervised teaching at the university will be conducted in the senior high schools of Lexington in 1920-21, the time of each student being 18 weeks, 4 lessons per week. In the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute supervised teaching is carried on in the elementary schools of the institute. TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. The professor of trades and industrial education at the University of Kentucky gave part of his time to supervising of trades and industrial education. Provision has been made for a full-time supervisor for the future. Part-time courses in the following trades were offered last year: Carpentry, electrical engineering, printing and bookbinding, dressmaking, stenography, mechanical drawing, cabinetmaking and salesmanship. The demand is growing for this type of work as well as for the evening schools. There are more than 40.000 coal miners in the State desiring short unit courses. The future indicates a greater development in trade and industrial education than in any other vocational field in the State. LOUISIANA. Members of the State board: E. L. Kidd, president, insurance, Ruston; Dr. John A. Haas, physician, banker, capitalist, Opelousas; Robert Martin, lawyer, St. Martinsville; Ralph S. Thornton, lawyer, Alexandria; John Legier, jr., banker, New Orleans; T. H. Harris, State superintendent of public instruction, secretary, Baton Rouge. Executive officer: T. H. Harris, State superintendent of public instruction, Baton Rouge. State supervisor of agriculture: P. L. Guilbeau, Baton Rouge. State supervisor of trades and industries: J. E. Lombard, Baton Rouge. Director of agricultural itinerant-teacher training: J. G. Lee, jr., Baton Rouge. State supervisor of home economics: Cleora C. Helbing, Baton Rouge. PROVISIONS FOR COOPERATION. The State board of education is designated in the law as the State board for vocational education. By constitutional provision, an appropriation of $50,000 a year is made to promote industrial education in the city of New Orleans. This appropriation will be expended in the support of the Delgado Trade School for Boys. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. The supervision was carried on by a full-time State supervisor of agriculture, a teacher trainer, who devoted one-fourth of his time to field work, and a part-time supervisor for colored schools. The State supervisor made 60 visits to the various vocational departments in the State, carried on general promotion work, and held one general and three regional conferences. Courses of study, circular letters, and revised record and school blanks were sent to teachers during the year. Twenty-one white schools, an increase of approximately 31 per cent over last year, were approved for Federal aid and enrolled 380 pupils in vocational work. The total income of pupils from directed or supervised practice in agriculture for 1918-19 was $7,113.34, a return of 28 cents on every dollar expended for salaries of teachers of vocational agriculture, which was $25,178.56. Six colored schools, an increase of approximately 50 per cent over last year, were approved for Federal aid and enrolled 161 pupils in vocational work. The total income of pupils from directed or supervised practice in agriculture in these schools for the year 1918-19 was $1,720.47. There were 44 students enrolled in the teacher-training department at the university. Seventeen students have graduated from the department since it was organized two years ago. A six weeks' summer session was held at the university, with an enrollment of 45. Southern University maintained a department for the training of teachers of agriculture and enrolled 5 students. HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION. A full-time supervisor of home economics has been employed in Louisiana for several years, and an assistant on full time will be added to the State home economics staff for 1920-21. Two white and five Negro schools were subsidized from Federal funds for home economics education in 1919-20. In the white schools there was an enrollment of 117 students, and in the Negro schools of 216. The training of white teachers for home economics education is conducted at the State university, Baton Rouge; that of Negro teachers at Southern University, Scotlandville. TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. During the current year considerable progress has been made in bringing to completion the Delgado Trade School in the city of New Orleans. It is expected that the school will be ready for occupancy by January 1. The Nichols Trade School for Girls, in New Orleans, has continued its unit trade courses, and in cooperation with the City Normal School has conducted teacher-training courses for women's trades. On completion of the new trade school it is hoped that all local needs will be met, so far as trade training for boys and men is concerned. The vocational program of this school will consist not only of the day school for trade preparation, but of evening trade extension classes and part-time classes for those already employed. The State has provided a part-time supervisor of industrial education. Anticipating the needs for funds for the Delgado School, and with the hope that this school will meet the needs of the State as well as of the city of New Orleans, the Federal appropriation for industrial education has not been distributed throughout the State. The program inaugurated several years ago has, therefore, not been enlarged during the past year. MAINE. Members of State board: Augustus O. Thomas, State superintendent of public instruction; C. S. Stetson, farmer; George E. Macomber, insurance. Executive officer: Augustus O. Thomas, State superintendent of public instruction. State director of vocational education: Paul W. Monohon. State supervisor of home economics education: Bernardine Cooney. State supervisor of trade and industrial education: I. C. Perkins (three months). PROVISIONS FOR COOPERATION. The 1917 session of the legislature accepted the Federal act. The act of acceptance creates a State board for vocational education, which consists of the State superintendent of public instruction and two members appointed by the governor. A special appropriation of $15,000 was made for the year 1919-20, and $20,000 for the year 1920-21. This State appropriation may be used by the State board for instruction, equipment, supervision, and for the payment of the actual necessary expenses of the board. In addition to this special appropriation, the State made an appropriation of $80,000 for the year 1919-20, and $100,000 for the year 1920-21. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. The State supervisor of agriculture, who devoted 50 per cent of his time to teacher training, had an assistant during the year. The two visited each school approved for aid at least three times during the school year. Two general conferences were held, special efforts were put forth for the establishment of short courses, and a monthly news letter to teachers was issued regularly. Fifteen schools, an increase of approximately 66 per cent over last year, were approved for Federal aid and enrolled 275 pupils in vocational work. The total income of pupils from directed or supervised |