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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Murals and the number 43 decorate the dormitory area at the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School, the teachers college from where 43 students went missing 10 years ago, in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero state, Mexico, Aug. 19, 2024.
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Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2024
After his Army discharge, Mr. Waldrop graduated in 1955 from the Kansas teachers college.
—Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
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
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
Amrit Kaur The ban on religious symbols passed the day that Kaur, a 29-year-old Sikh who wears a turban, graduated from teachers college.
—Dan Bilefsky, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2020
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Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2024
After his Army discharge, Mr. Waldrop graduated in 1955 from the Kansas teachers college.
—Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
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
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
Amrit Kaur The ban on religious symbols passed the day that Kaur, a 29-year-old Sikh who wears a turban, graduated from teachers college.
—Dan Bilefsky, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2020
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