University of Florida... 44 University of Georgia and Georgia State College of Agriculture. 45 University of Idaho.. 45 University of Illinois. 46 Purdue University.... 48 Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 49 The work of teachers training in the land-grant colleges-Continued. Ohio State University. Clemson Agricultural College, South Carolina.. University of Tennessee. Agricultural College of Utah.. South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute.. West Virginia University. State College of Washington. University of Wisconsin.. University of Wyoming.. Page. 69 71 72 74 74 75 76 77 78 78 79 79 81 82 85 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C., October, 1, 1917. SIR: In the amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill approved March 4, 1907, increasing the Federal appropriation for the support of land-grant colleges, it is provided that these colleges may use a portion of this money for the purpose of providing courses for the special preparation of teachers of agriculture and the mechanic arts. From time to time, as the need for teachers with special preparation in these subjects has increased, the Commissioner of Education has urged the land-grant colleges to use for this purpose liberal portions of the funds coming to them through this act-the so-called Nelson amendment. The great increase of interest in vocational education in high schools within the past few years and the still greater interest which will come as the result of the passage of the act for Federal aid to vocational education in schools below college grade will create a demand larger than all our agencies are now able to supply for teachers of agriculture, trades, and industries, and commercial and home economics subjects. The capacity of existing agencies must be increased or new agencies created. It is therefore desirable to know just what is now done by existing agencies. For this reason I have asked Dr. C. D. Jarvis, specialist in agricultural education in this bureau, to prepare an account of what the landgrant colleges are doing to prepare teachers of agriculture, home economics, and trades and industries for the secondary schools, and am transmitting this account herewith for publication as a bulletin of the Bureau of Education. Later I expect to transmit for publication a similar account of what is done in this field by normal schools and colleges. Respectfully submitted. P. P. CLAXTON, Commissioner. The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. 5 |