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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to instruction given in preparation for vocational school.
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Examples
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States have the option to provide prevocational, educational, and supported employment services under Medicaid waivers to people of all ages in all target groups.
Vp Gore Announces New Services For People With Disabilities ITY National Archives 2000
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We must continue to raise the standards of the rest of the prevocational schools in the country because universities feed from Cuba's vocational schools and pre-universities.
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Engels school. [applause] At Engels we have 24,000 prevocational students.
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Help provided for certain vocational and prevocational programs also included an important element of training.
United Nations Children's Fund - Nobel Lecture United Nations Children's Fund 1965
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Intermediate Schools, assigned to prevocational classes if employed six hours per day, in addition to the regular salary of their rank 192
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ORDERED, That the compensation of Louis K. Hull, temporary prevocational instructor, is hereby established at the rate of two dollars and twenty cents ($2.20) per two-hour period of service for the period January 1 to August 31, 1920. 19.
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This form of organization has the great advantage of concentrating in large groups the boys who are old enough to make a beginning in prevocational training, and through the departmental system of teaching offers facilities for differentiation of courses to meet their varying needs.
Wage Earning and Education Rufus Rolla Lutz
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And, the prevocational and vocational courses, covered an alphabetical range from agriculture and auto mechanics to tinsmithing and welding.
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These concessions are exhibited in special schools and courses for the professions, for engineering, for manual training and commerce, in vocational and prevocational courses; and in the spirit in which certain elementary subjects, like the three R's, are taught.
democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education 1916
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These concessions are exhibited in special schools and courses for the professions, for engineering, for manual training and commerce, in vocational and prevocational courses; and in the spirit in which certain elementary subjects, like the three
Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education John Dewey 1905
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