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Catherine wrote the first FACS textbook that was recognized by the Department of Education.
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A Land Grant University is a university that uses the Morrill act.
A Morrill Act is used to
-teach agriculture
-military tactics
-mechanic arts
-classical studies
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The Morrill Act of 1862 was also known as the Land Grant College Act. The grant helps educate people in
-agriculture
-home economics
-mechanical arts
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Iowa State University was the first university to accept the Morrill Act and become a land grant university!
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The University of Arkansas was named the Arkansas Industrial University, on March 27, 1871. This is a Land Grant University in Arkansas!
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The University of Arkansas Pine Bluff is one of only nineteen 1890 land-grant institutions in the country.
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Because Benjamin was the first to label nutrition as a science in the late 1800’s it opened up a door for many opportunities in FACS!
-Also the Rumford Kitchen at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 was named after him -
Because Ellen believed science could be used to improve health & well-being of people she started many things such as a school lunch program for schools!
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Atwater was the first person to officially get funding for human nutrition in the United States! He was given 10,000 dollars for it!!
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Lake Placid is where 11 people gathered to decide on a name for the field the people were studying. At this conference they decided to name it Home Economics!
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Caroline was the first teach or be a professor for home economics at a college university!
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The Smith-Lever Act was an outreach program to help educate Americans about agriculture practice and technology!
- created the Cooperative Extension Service.
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The ADA has always been dedicated to helping improve the public's health and nutrition. Especially during World War I. They helped the government make all these things happen!
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this act help give money to help pay for people be prepared to teach on things such as
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-home economics
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The American Home Economics Association made the Betty lamp their symbol because it means to make better. They have strived to always make home economics better!
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- provided money to states to teach more, maintain or improve on vocational-technical education programs.
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-instead of focusing on occupation this amendment focuses on people
-each state must submit a plan consisting of administrative policies and procedures and an annual and 5-year program plan.
-authorized funds are allocated to permanent programs in cooperative vocational as well as consumer and homemaking education. -
doesn't allow discrimination against people with disabilities so that they can get help for things like
-federal agencies
-programs receiving federal financial assistance
-federal employment
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- requires states to eliminate gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination in vocational education.
- The amendments also permit the allocation of federal funds to programs for single heads of households, homemakers, part-time workers seeking full-time jobs, and persons seeking jobs in areas nontraditional for their sex.
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-This law authorizes federal funds to support vocational education programs.
- This law also requires that vocational education be provided for students with disabilities. -
This act amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act to:
(1) rename it the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 (the Act);
(2) revise it; and
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In 2006, the Act was re-advised and the revisions include:
-Replaces “vocational education” with “career and technical education”
-Maintains the Tech Prep program as a separate entity with federal funding within the legislation
-Maintains state administrative funding at 5 percents of a state’s allocation