A Report on the Peace Corps: Training for Overseas Service

Kauffman, Joseph F.

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“…U.S. officials and Peace Corp volunteers received in‐depth technical training, often the kind of training not to be first learned in the field but in friendly training areas resembling their future deployments, and tools for bridging cultural gaps in their host countries. The government of Puerto Rico provided the U.S. federal government with Peace Corps training sites near Mayaguez and Arecibo, Puerto Rico, in the 1960s (Kauffman, 1962) at little expense, and Puerto Rican citizens eagerly contributed to the project.…”

Section: A Strategic Location and A Legacy Of Servicementioning

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Cooperation and Prosperity of the Americas Initiative: Puerto Rico and Opportunities for Increased Partnership, Collaboration, and Stability for the People of the Americas

Figueroa

Hagadorn

2011

Latin American Policy

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The U.S. government's efforts to redefine policy toward Latin America, and to counter the image that it is doing little more than fighting drug trafficking, would be boosted if it embraced cooperation with its territory in the Caribbean: Puerto Rico. Despite years of disagreement and distrust between federal and Puerto Rican political leaders, it is time to refocus on how the island's developed infrastructure, educated population, demonstrated patriotism to the United States, and cultural affinity with Latin America can help U.S.–Latin America policy. Puerto Rico is an ideal location from which to send emergency and humanitarian assistance to the region and to establish training centers to assist in building judicial and other democratic institutions in Latin America. As important, federal and local cooperation in the national security sphere will improve economic and social conditions on an island fighting crime and chronic underemployment.

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Section: A Strategic Location and A Legacy Of Servicementioning

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Cooperation and Prosperity of the Americas Initiative: Puerto Rico and Opportunities for Increased Partnership, Collaboration, and Stability for the People of the Americas

Figueroa

Hagadorn

2011

Latin American Policy

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“…Evaluating the first year of the Peace Corps, Kauffman (1962) found that 60 percent of the volunteers were engaged in formal or institutional teaching. He reported that as of May 1962, 21 universities were under contract to provide training programs of 8-12 weeks' duration.…”

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Chapter VI: Social Policy and Education

Egmond¹

1964

Review of Educational Research

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THE COMPLEX and often circular nature of interrelationships between education and social policy poses a distinct challenge for both the investigator and the reviewer. Recognizing the contributions of intensive smallscale investigations as well as comprehensive ones, the reviewer has included both types of studies. Since much of the literature in the area under consideration is characterized by expressions of opinion, by statements based on a given value system, and by debate and reference to precedent, an attempt has been made to include materials which present an objective appraisal of significant issues. Literature concerned with an examination of the equality of educational opportunity is surveyed first. This section is followed by considerations of church-school relations, the impact on education of actions by federal government, and programs in international education. A final section includes distinctive studies which examine the influence of specific social, political, and economic factors on education.

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Learning to Learn: Community Development Training During the 1960s

Purcell

2019

The Peace Corps in South America

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A Report on the Peace Corps: Training for Overseas Service

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Cooperation and Prosperity of the Americas Initiative: Puerto Rico and Opportunities for Increased Partnership, Collaboration, and Stability for the People of the Americas

Cooperation and Prosperity of the Americas Initiative: Puerto Rico and Opportunities for Increased Partnership, Collaboration, and Stability for the People of the Americas

Chapter VI: Social Policy and Education

Learning to Learn: Community Development Training During the 1960s

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