Amid the rolling hills and strip-mined mountain tops that stretch through Logan County, West Virginia is Route 10 — a newer highway that was 20 years in the making. It made road travel in southern West Virginia more accessible, but it also replaced the McDonald airfield. And like most airports […]
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Proposed Budget Cuts to Adult Education Set an Alarming Precedent
(Click to view the full map pictured above.) One unusually hot April evening in Nashville, I began my reading and writing course by asking my students to free write for 15 minutes. Yvonne Littlepage is one of my brightest math students. She is a petite, older African-American women who, since […]
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