Talk:Teacher Corps

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In case anyone's monitoring this page: I think the name should be changed to Teacher Corps (no "National"). PL 89-329 says, in section 531, that to carry out the purposes of this part, there is hereby established in the Office of Education a National Teacher Corps (hereinafter referred to as the 'Teacher Corps')." I was a Teacher Corps intern myself, and can attest that both internal and external documents consistently referred to "Teacher Corps," as people referred to its Great Society cousins as the Peace Corps and the Job Corps. I would then add a redirect for "National Teacher Corps" to "Teacher Corps."

I'm working at finding references like those I've just added to round out the picture of where Teacher Corps operated and what populations it served. My fellow interns joked that the typical Teacher Corps project involved urban, minority, elementary school children, with interns who at the end of their internship would earn an undergraduate degree, while our project involved rural, white, high-school children along with six teams of interns who would receive master's degrees.

--- OtherDave (talk) 21:28, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Moved "National Teachers Corps" to "Teacher Corps"[edit]

I moved the article to "Teacher Corps," which means the history and this talk page moved as well. I've checked the associated category pages, and they all show "Teacher Corps" now. In the meantime, I've been looking for references to give a fuller picture of the program. Current draft (with rough notes) is here. --- OtherDave (talk) 20:33, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]