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Catherine Beecher Started Home Economics movement and played an important role in women's education.
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She wrote 33 books and the majority was about home economics.
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Annie Dewey was a librarian and educator. She had an important role in getting home economics into public higher education.
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Isabel Bewer conducted nutritional research while on staff at the University of Illinois. She helped develop the new field of home economics along science.
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Alice P. Norton worked with Ellen Swallow Richards in providing home economics to the community.
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-University of Arkansas (Fayettville)
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This act established federal funding for many of the United States public schools.
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Established to extend educational opportunities, such as home economics.
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Benjamin Andrews was a professor of home economics for over 40 years. He served as the chairman of the educational board the journal of home economics and spread the mission of home economics through lectures, writing, and teaching.
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She was a chemist and promoted home economics. She founded AAFCS (American Association Of Family and Consumer Sciences.
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This act created the cooperative extension service including Family Consumer Sciences.
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This act established Family Consumer Sciences as part of vocational education.
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This required states receiving federal funding to develop and carry out activities and programs to eliminate gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination in vocational education.
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The purpose of this act to provide people with the academic and technology skills needed to succeed.
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The organization changed its name from American Home Economics Association to Family Consumer Sciences.
