By 1930 vocational curricula in the United States had been funded by the federal government for more than ten years and vocational programmes were entrenched in the secondary school curriculum. Vocational courses for young women consisted of training for office work, home economics and some trade education. Course work in all three of these areas had actually existed in secondary schools before the turn of the century. However, this study explains that these courses… More >>
The Girl Question in Education: Vocational Training for Young Women in the Progressive Era
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