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by Quinn Clark | Feb 17, 2022 | Education
Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things. Name one. When Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his...
by Ariel Gans | Feb 16, 2022 | Education, Featured
More than 30 years after Congress passed a law requiring museums to return all things removed from Native American graves to descendants of those buried, the New York State Museum has returned only 29 percent of its collection of Native American ancestors and funerary...
by Quinn Clark | Feb 11, 2022 | Education, Featured
Three months ago, Josiah Kemp, a transgender teenager living in Hunterdon County, N.J., made the decision to leave his home church. Kemp didn’t leave Christianity, he said, but he needed to stop attending services at a church that was openly opposed to LGBTQ...
by Emily Anderson Stern | Feb 3, 2022 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — In the two-and-a-half decades since he earned his master’s degree in counseling from the University at Albany, Matthew Flowers Jr. has been chipping away at his student loan debt. The Troy resident had to delay buying a house until last year...
by Emily Anderson Stern | Jan 28, 2022 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — More than three years after Hurricane Michael hit Florida, the rural Calhoun County School District in the Panhandle, whose students mostly come from low-income households, still hasn’t recovered. Children who had attended Blountstown...
by Allison Novelo and Hannah Schoenbaum | Jan 27, 2022 | Education, Featured
As the nation recognizes International Holocaust Remembrance Day Thursday, Maryland remains among 31 states that do not have laws requiring Holocaust education. But some state lawmakers are revisiting legislation that would impose a curriculum mandate in Maryland...
