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The National Defense Education Act, signed in 1958, focused on improving education in science, mathematics, foreign languages, and other critical areas, especially in national defense. In 1963, the Vocational Education Act added support for vocational education schools for work-study programs and research.
Amended the Vocational Education Act to extend grants for nurse training. Pub. L. 87–22: 1962 McIntire–Stennis Act of 1962: Funded agricultural research programs. Pub. L. 87–788: 1963 (No short title) Reauthorized the National Defense Education Act. Expanded vocational education programs with the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Pub. L ...
Education Amendments of 1972; Long title: An Act to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, the General Education Provisions Act (creating a National Foundation for Postsecondary Education and a National Institute of Education), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, and related Acts, and for other purposes.
The Vocational Education Act of 1963 was enacted to overhaul the Smith-Hughes Act and expand the scope of federal funding for vocational education. [17] The Higher Education Act of 1965 was passed to increase funding for universities and help disadvantaged students afford tuition. [ 18 ]
Title IX; Long title: An Act to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, the General Education Provisions Act (creating a National Foundation for Postsecondary Education and a National Institute of Education), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, and related Acts, and for other purposes.
During World War II, the ATS changed its primary publishing material to vocational training materials for preparation of industrial workers for the war effort. In the early 1960s, the Vocational Education Act of 1963 and subsequent appropriations provided increased federal funding for the expansion of vocational education programs.
Funding for home economics and home-ec teacher training was permanently authorized by the Vocational Education Act of 1963, and the number of girls taking home ec in high school increased. Dreilinger points out the contradiction that tens of thousands of professional home economists were "building careers telling other women to stay home, often ...
With the passage of this act, the Smith-Hughs Act—and consequently the Federal Board for Vocational Education—disbanded due to opposing politics and organizational difficulties from within. [5] [6] Despite this, its efforts and accomplishments are still recognized and in effect in modern American vocational education.