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Impact of Federal Legislation and Policies upon Vocational Education

by Mayor D. Mobley & Melvin L. Barlow - 1965

For years there had been much agitation for such legislation on the part of leaders in agriculture, industry, and organized labor. Until about 1900, most of the skilled workers in the United States had come to this country from Europe. As immigration laws were tightened, leaders in government, agriculture, industry, and labor realized that vocational-education programs would need to be developed if the United States was to move forward in economic growth.

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This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 64, No. 1.

Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 66 Number 9, 1965, p. 186-202
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 19751, Date Accessed: 9/26/2020 1:51:45 AM

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Mayor Mobley American Vocational Association E-mail Author MAYOR D. MOBLEY is the Executive Secretary of the American Vocational Association in Washington, DC. Melvin Barlow University of California, Los Angeles E-mail Author MELVIN L. BARLOW is a Professor of Education and the Director of the Division of Vocational Education at UCLA.

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