The bill stipulates that the federal government should assume the responsibility of developing all kinds of vocational education, and should provide the necessary financial allocation for the development of vocational education below the university level in each state; The federal government cooperates with the States to carry out teacher training in agriculture, industry, commerce, home economics and other disciplines; States must provide equal matching funds for the federal government's financial allocation; Offering vocational courses in public middle schools, transforming ordinary middle schools with the purpose of further education into comprehensive middle schools with equal emphasis on further education and employment; The federal government has set up a federal vocational education committee, and each state has also set up a corresponding state vocational education committee to undertake the implementation of the state vocational education plan, supervise the development of vocational education, and implement the state vocational education teacher training plan. Under the effect of Smith-Hughes Act, American secondary vocational education has made remarkable progress. "Only 19 18- 1925, the number of teachers in vocational schools increased from 3,276 to 9,037, and the number of students increased from 1 17943 to 3,843.