teachers college
noun
: a college for the training of teachers usually offering a full 4-year course and granting a bachelor's degree
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The Territorial Normal School, which opened its doors in 1886, was a teachers college that helped train educators for Arizona's growing population.
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Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
6 Nov. 2025
The victims — students at a rural teachers college in Ayotzinapa, a poor community in southern Mexico — were at the core of his base of support.
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Oscar Lopez,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2022
Cal Poly Humboldt, founded in 1913 as a teachers college, was known as Humboldt State until January.
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Los Angeles Times,
16 Aug. 2022
In March 2015, the Organization of American States sent experts to help the Mexican government investigate the disappearance of 43 students from a teachers college in the town of Ayotzinapa.
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Washington Post,
23 Nov. 2021
The 43 students from the rural teachers college at Ayotzinapa in the southern state of Guerrero were abducted by corrupt local police in the town of Iguala.
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Maria Verza,
Star Tribune,
24 Sep. 2020
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Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
6 Nov. 2025
The victims — students at a rural teachers college in Ayotzinapa, a poor community in southern Mexico — were at the core of his base of support.
—
Oscar Lopez,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2022
Cal Poly Humboldt, founded in 1913 as a teachers college, was known as Humboldt State until January.
—
Los Angeles Times,
16 Aug. 2022
In March 2015, the Organization of American States sent experts to help the Mexican government investigate the disappearance of 43 students from a teachers college in the town of Ayotzinapa.
—
Washington Post,
23 Nov. 2021
The 43 students from the rural teachers college at Ayotzinapa in the southern state of Guerrero were abducted by corrupt local police in the town of Iguala.
—
Maria Verza,
Star Tribune,
24 Sep. 2020
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