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First to experiemt with household issues
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Began the hoem economics movement and an imortant figure in women's education
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This act made it possible for new western states to establish colleges for their citizens.
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Federal Government to grant each state 30,000 acres of public land issued in the form of "land scrip" certificates for each of its Representatives and Senators in Congress.
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University of Arkansas
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Was an acivist for consumer edcaution, nutriton, child pretection, and the applicaiton of the of scientific and management principles to the family. In 1909, she and a small group of women created what became known as the Amerian Home Economics Assocation.
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Established a national Cooperative Extension Service that exteneded outreach programs through land-grant universities to educate rural Americans about advances in agricultural practices and technology.
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Provieded federal aid to the stats for the purpose of promoting precollegiate vocational edcuation in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics.
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Provided grants to states to maintain, imporve, and develop vocational-technical education programs.
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National and state advisory councils are required. In additoin each state must submit a plan consisting of administrative policies and procedures and an annual and 5-year program plan.
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Is a comprehensive federal law taht prohibits descrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.
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Organization of the paper is around areas of special legislative emphasis that will create the greatest change in vocational education: planning, datat and information, evaluation, elimination of sex bias and sex stereotyping, special groups, and program improvement.
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Autherorizes federal funds to support vocational education programs. One of the goals for the Perkins Act is to improve the access of either those who have been underserved in the past or those who have greater-than-average educational needs.
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Reauthorization of the 1984 Act.
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Act will provide an increased focus on the academic achievement of career and technical education students, strengthen the connections between secondary and postsecondary educaion, and implement the new Act.
