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Justin Smith Morrill Act 1862
It established federal funding for higher education in every state of the country. -
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Land Grant University's
A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. -
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Land Grant University, UofA
The federal Morrill Land Grant Act granted lands to Arkansas that could be sold, the revenues from which could then be used to pay for creation of the university. -
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Land Grant Universities, UAPB
Its mission is to promote and sustain excellent academic programs that integrate quality instruction, research, and student learning experiences responsive to the needs of a racially, culturally, and economically diverse student population. -
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Rumford Kitchen
Presented at the World's Fair, the Rumford Kitchen represented a workingman's home and showed how his family could live on $500 a year. -
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School Lunch Program
The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day. -
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Lake Placid Conference
The first meeting of contemporaries in the field of home economics was held at the Lake Placid Club. -
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Ellen R Richards
In 1909, Ellen H. Richards founded the American Home Economics Association (later renamed the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences) -
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Smith Lever Act
The 1914 Smith Lever Act Extension created a Cooperative Extension Service associated with each land-grant institution. This partnership between agricultural colleges and USDA enables the dissemination of information produced by the experiment stations’ research. -
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Smith Hughes Act
It was an act of the United States Congress that promoted vocational education in "agriculture, trades and industry, and homemaking", and provided federal funds for this purpose. -
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Betty Lamp
In 1926, the American Home Economics Association adopted the Betty Lamp as a symbol for the association.The lamp in colonial days provided light for all household industries. -
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George-Deen Act
The George-Deen Vocational Law of 1936 helped provide students and workers with job training, helping them to attain better positions. -
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FHA
Future Homemakers of America (FHA) was established as a cocurricular high school student organization. -
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Vocational Education Act
The Vocational Education Act of 1963 provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs. The funds were earmarked for occupations in demand. -
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Vocational Amendment
The Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 extend the work of the 1963 amendments, but the emphasis has changed from occupations to people. National and state advisory councils are required. In addition each state must submit a plan consisting of administrative policies and procedures and an annual and 5-year program plan. -
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Vocational Amendment of 1976
The 1976 Amendments to the Vocational Equity Act of 1963, required states receiving federal funding for vocational education to develop and carry out activities and programs to eliminate gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination in vocational education. -
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Carl Perkins Vocational Act
Its purpose is to increase the quality of technical education in the United States. -
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FCCLA
The field changed it name and emphasis to family and consumer sciences to reflect cultural and educational development. Future Homemakers of America was renamed the Family, Career and, Community Leaders of America. -
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Redick
It projected that states would adopt the critical science perspective as the preferred curriculum approach -
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Carl Perkins Act
The new Act will provide an increased focus on the academic achievement of career and technical education students, strengthen the connections between secondary and postsecondary education, and improve state and local accountability.