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Longtime vocational education leader dies

By Anonymous
Publication: Techniques
Date: Monday, September 1 2003

Dr. Robert E. Taylor, 75, an internationally recognized scholar and leader in the field of workforce preparation, died in May. A graduate of the University of Arizona, Dr. Taylor was the Arizona state supervisor of agricultural education and state FFA advisor. After earning his doctorate at Ohio State

University, he joined the Ohio State faculty where in 1965 he founded and served as executive director of the National Center for Research in Vocational Education for 21 years. Dr. Taylor was the 1997 recipient of ACTE's Carl Perkins Humanitarian Award, and in the same year he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the then National Association of State Directors of Vocational-Technical Education.

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