Heightened generational and cultural divides are increasingly apparent throughout Appalachia as rural students navigate the path to higher education. College has shifted from presenting a lure of opportunity to one of uncertainty and risk. To tell community members in a small Appalachian town to pull themselves up by their bootstraps […]
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Ties that Bind, Severed: Rural Communities Suffer When Their Kids’ Schools Close
In many rural towns throughout Appalachia–and across the world, for that matter—the school and the church may be the only public spaces where a community can see itself. The livelihood of one of those spaces is currently at the mercy of state-level redistricting. The West Virginia Supreme Court this month […]
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