Replicating earlier study, 553 North Carolina secondary school administrators were surveyed, with 52 percent response from principals, 86 percent from vocational directors, and 56 percent from superintendents. They generally agreed that purpose of vocational agriculture is training for agricultural occupations and their communities consider…

Some 2,200 people assembled in seventy-six community meetings across North Carolina were surveyed on overall program goals of the 1978 State Plan for Vocational Education. Following a half-hour informative television program on vocational education activities and roles, opinions were ascertained on goals affecting North Carolina public schools,…

The at-risk students served by vocational education include academically disadvantaged students, dropouts, students with limited English proficiency (LEP), pregnant teens, single parents, migrants, economically disadvantaged students, handicapped students, and potential dropouts. The claim that the U.S. economy is healthy because unemployment is…