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diversity in agricultural education  

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  • When it was first established, the goal of agricultural education was to enhance better farming practices at the secondary and postsecondary level in order to help maintain the United States' status as an industrial and agricultural leader. Prior to school desegregation, Black and White youth participated in secondary agricultural education in racially segregated classrooms throughout the southern and eastern states. [Source: Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education; Agricultural Education, Diversity in]

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