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Connelley's first contribution to vocationl education was in founding and serving as first principal of the Fifth Ward Training School. The first of its kind, it trained students in technical skills. Retrospectively, Connelley explained his vision as

"a form of technical training which would direct into useful channels the bound-up energy of the restless boys and girls who were not well adapted to academic studies and would need a little special training to enable them to find their places in the industrial system. We were just then beginning to realize what was meant by industrial education by what Mr. Carnegie later called ‘handucation and headucation’."

Vocational education in Pittsburgh
Years leading up to Connelley opening: vocational school achieved the structure and status of secondary school. 1931: Pittsburgh Board of Public Education published "Educational opportunities of greater Pittsburgh" which outlined the many offerings in trade schools. Vocational education was one of 8 administrative divisions in the Public School board (which included Kindergartes, High Schools and teacher training) [p 16] Trad schools also included some liberal arts, social sciences and sciences subjects: literature, civics, American history, physics and chemistry. Instrumental music and art were also on the curriculum; vocal music, modern languages, and geography were not. By contrast, several trade training courses were offered at non-trade high schools under the heading "industrial arts." "Commercial subjects" (business, law and finance) were offered at Senior high schools (grades 10-1) only. [p 16-17]

Women were also offered vocational education. Typical courses included "personal service" (also called "beauty culture"), dressmaking, millinery, and tea room service. [p 17]

Included apprenticeship program; students went to work in various enterprises in pairs on an alteranting schedule of rotations. This schedule allowed two students to receive this benefit while the industry paid for only one [p 27] Link: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=00akc2513m;view=toc;c=pitttext