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Lyndon Johnson: “The National Teacher Corps can help improve the quality of teaching where quality is most needed and most often in short…”

On the recordJuly 16, 1965
The National Teacher Corps can help improve the quality of teaching where quality is most needed and most often in short supply--in city slums and in areas of rural poverty.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House on the Proposed Teaching Professions Bill.

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