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There's a National Teachers Hall of Fame? Who Knew?

A one-of-a-kind museum that honors some of the nation's most accomplished teachers has given Emporia Kansas the title of "Teacher Town USA."
Inside the National Teachers Hall of Fame there are decades-old typewriters, ditto machines, toys, textbooks and curriculum guides.

If you've ever driven south into Kansas on Interstate 35, past rolling prairies and wheat fields, eventually you'll run into the town of Emporia, population 25,000 and home to the National Teachers Hall of Fame.

I took that drive recently, curious about what I would find but also wondering, why Emporia? "Why not Emporia?" asks Jennifer Baldwin, the administrative assistant of the . Baldwin, a native of

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