The day after that, students at Fayetteville State Teachers College and at Johnson C.

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Lyndon Johnson hailed from Southwest Texas State Teachers College.

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During his late teens he was the only member of his generation from Possum Hollow to go to college, attending the state teachers school in Murfreesboro, while also hauling livestock to market, raising a tobacco crop, and selling radios door-to-door for the furniture man in Carthage.

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Recently, I heard from a professor of education at a state university in San Diego who bristled at the former college basketball player's call for reforming teachers' colleges.

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So this year, taxpayers claiming college tuition and teachers' deductions, as well as the 11 million filers who deduct state sales tax (another break renewed at the last minute), can't use the simpler 1040A, as some could last year.

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