William George Carr

[1] The family moved again, this time to Los Angeles, California when his father (a cabinet maker) became a consultant to the movie industry on authentic period furniture.

[3] Upon graduation, Carr taught at the Roosevelt Junior High School in Glendale, California in 1924.

In 1927, he took a position as Research Director for the California Teachers Association and began working on his Ph.D from Stanford.

[5] In 1929, Carr moved to Washington D.C. to become the Assistant Research Director for the National Education Association.

He served as the deputy to the chairperson and consultant on the committee responsible for writing the charter that created each organization.

[6] In 1946, he was named General Secretary of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP) and became a consultant for UNESCO.

[7] His view in the 1940s was that the United States needed to end its isolationist tendencies by teaching that the country "is now and forever bound up in the affairs of the world.

He also advocated for "systematic education for home and family life," in which he proposed that schools adopt a curriculum to turn out more efficient consumers.

[2] Carr was a member of the American-Korean Mission to aid in rebuilding the educational system of South Korea at the end of the Korean War in 1953.