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Vocational Education Movement Grows

1909

As part of the fast-growing vocational school movement, reformers and philanthropists such as Frank Parsons and Pauline Agassiz Shaw establish the Vocation Bureau of Boston and the Breadwinner’s Institute in an effort to provide financial aid and counseling for children who want to go to vocational schools. Parsons is considered the founder of the vocational guidance movement.