What are the best agricultural schools?
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| Respectivel y significant role has been played to solve the pro blem associated with Agricultural Education and Training access barriers by opening new agricultural schools with the incompatible increased dropouts. | |
01 Jan 2013 | Hence, there is a need to support the teaching of agriculture in secondary schools by providing practical skills that aim at modernizing farming, and to assist graduates access initial capital for agricultural activities. |
41 Citations | The proliferation of farm to school (FTS) programming in US schools emerges out of a convergence of recent trends facing agricultural producers and food consumers and as such represents part of a broader effort to relocalize food systems and build new connections between schools, producers, and communities. |
| The Congressional district agricultural schools-because of how they were established, their facilities, and their curricula--are, when taken together as a group, an important early example of vocational agriculture. | |
| We find that both scope and scale economies have important economic performance implications, and that an input-oriented framework including off-farm income best characterizes agricultural production. | |
| Many rural schools have good collections of agricultural products, but there are many more things that should be added. | |
01 Jan 2013 | further indicate that respondents had a positive attitude towards agricultural education, and they felt that knowledge and skills that they gained in secondary schools are not fully utilized in productive agriculture because of the lack capital and support for engaging in commercial farming. |
| One of the main conclusions of the Committee was that the agricultural education curriculum in high schools has failed to keep up with modem agriculture. | |
30 Citations | Several measures of agricultural R&D achievement and intensity, along with educational enrollment, are found to enhance agricultural efficiency. |
| I present new data from the Midwest at the start of the twentieth century showing that the emerging public schools were helping farmers successfully adapt to a variety of agricultural innovations. | |
71 Citations | The recovery or enhancement of relationships between agricultural schools and agricultural enterprises, access to credits for business establishment and the purchase of agricultural land, and better living conditions in rural municipalities could encourage agriculturally educated youth to remain in rural areas and work in agriculture. |
| While rural schools are a unique, urban and rural schools may be more similar than expected, particularly as compared to more affluent suburban districts. | |
| We also find evidence that the large increase in income is due to the use of new agricultural practices, such as new varieties, taught and promoted in the farmer field schools. | |
45 Citations | Moore (1994) suggested that we can best integrate agricultural and academic education by studying the schools and teachers who are experiencing success in these areas. |
| According to the Handbook on Agricultural Education in Public Schools (Phipps & Osborne, 1988), teachers of agriculture must possess unquestionable character as it is essential to be a successful teacher. | |
24 Citations | In the present day, however, they continue in some areas as viable alternatives to western-style schools and as units of agricultural production. |
41 Citations | The potential for success is greatly enhanced if agricultural communications development strategies are coordinated with agricultural education to build synergies between the programs while maintaining unique strengths. |
| In summary, the review of literature emphasized the following points: (1) there was a need to teach values to high school students; (2) the teaching strategies for incorporating the teaching of morals and values in secondary agricultural science needed to be identified; (3) literature showed there was a discrepancy as to what values are and what values should be taught; and (4) there was no existing study in agricultural education addressing the subject ofteachingvalues and morals in the secondary agricultural education |
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