vocational
(adjective)
that provides a special skill rather than academic knowledge
Examples of vocational in the following topics:
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Vocational Training
- A rise in formalized vocational training followed the Panic of 1893, with vocational high schools and normal schools preceding.
- The industrial education system evolved, after large-scale growth following World War I, into modern vocational education.
- There were also non-cooperative high schools; two examples were the Girl's Vocational High School in Kansas City, Missouri and the Delgado Trade School in New Orleans.
- This national vocational movement was seen to give junior colleges a target population, but numerous students wanted more than a semiprofessional education; many maintained a desire to transfer.
- Discuss the political and economic circumstances that gave rise to institutionalized vocational training in the early twentieth-century
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"The War on Poverty"
- The policy trains disadvantaged and at-risk youth and has provided more than two million disadvantaged young people with integrated academic, vocational, and social skills training.
- Besides vocational training, many Job Corps also offer GED programs as well as high school diplomas and programs to get students into college.
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The Tariff
- ...the net income of a taxable person shall include gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal service of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, or from professions, vocations, businesses, trade, commerce, or sales, or dealings in property, whether real or personal, growing out of the ownership or use of or interest in real or personal property, also from interest, rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any lawful business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever
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The G.I. Bill of Rights
- Benefits included low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend university, high school or vocational education, as well as one year of unemployment compensation.
- An additional 5.6 million used these benefits for vocational training programs.
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Progressivism and Religion
- With Jane Addams's Hull House in Chicago as its center, the settlement house movement and the vocation of social work were deeply influenced by the Social Gospel.
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The Great Society
- The policy trains disadvantaged and at-risk youth and has provided more than two million disadvantaged young people with integrated academic, vocational, and social skills training.
- Besides vocational training, many Job Corps also offer GED programs as well as high school diplomas and programs to get students into college.
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Legislative Achievements of the Second New Deal
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Prisons and Asylums
- At the core of the design was an educational program, which included general subjects and vocational training for the less capable.
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Minorities and the New Deal
- It required federal agencies and departments involved with defense production to ensure that vocational and training programs were administered without discrimination as to "race, creed, color, or national origin. " All defense contracts were to include provisions that barred private contractors from discrimination as well.