Excerpt from Rural School, 1922: Survey, of New York State Vocational Education
Under the education law of New York State schools in districts of less than 4,500 population are rural. In the organization of this phase of the survey it was decided to limit the study of vocational education to schools that were in rural districts in the legal sense. It is true that there are departments of vocational agriculture and homemaking in larger centers that are serving young people from the farms, but the facts that have been secured in this study undoubtedly give a fair picture of the conditions in the state. Besides the departments of vocational agriculture and homemaking that have been established in the high schools there are six special state schools all of which are teaching agriculture and some of them are giving work in homemaking. Because of their intimate relation to farm life five of these schools have been included in this study. In this report only the instructional work of these schools is treated. The administrative problems that they present are discussed in the section of the survey dealing with "administration and supervision."
It is believed that this is the most comprehensive study that has thus far been made of a state"s efforts to meet the needs of rural communities for vocational education. As New York was one of the pioneer states in making provision for state aid to stimulate the development of vocational education, the results of this inquiry should be of value not only to those who are in charge of the development of vocational education in New York, but it should be helpful to those directing similar work in other states. The philosophy that is involved in the discussion of problems studied appeals to the director as being sound.
This study was prepared by Dr. T. H. Eaton under the general direction of Dr. W. C. Bagley. The funds for conducting this study and for printing this report were provided by the Commonwealth Fund. A complete list of the reports will be found at the back of this volume.
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