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Schools began including classes related to domestic concerns.
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First home economics textbook
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Justin Smith Morrill
provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in “agriculture and the mechanic arts.” -
Kansas State
KSU began their domestic economy curriculum. -
School Lunch Program
the first school lunch program in Boston -
AAFCS founded
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Ellen Richards
founded American Home Economics Association (later renamed the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences). -
Smith-Lever Act
created the agricultural extension services, including home economics. -
Smith Hughes Act
"provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting precollegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics." -
Capper Ketchem Act
extended the smith-lever act to cover home economics -
George Reed Act
made home economics funding more equitable in comparison with other services
and more for rural areas than urban areas. -
committee appointed by AHEA
recommended home economics clubs should form a national organization -
Beginning of Accreditation
undergrad programs in Home Economics -
Vocational Education Act
2 types of home economics- useful employment and gainful employment -
Vocational Amendments of 1968
name changed to consumer and homemaking education -
Vocational Amendment of 1976
vocational funding of 1-1.7 million until 1982 -
First Black President of FHA
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First Male President of FHA
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AHEA changed name to American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
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Carl Perkins Act
new funding program passed
