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A teacher works with a student on numbers in the Fort Osage School District. Many schools in Missouri invested in learning mentors and tutors after the pandemic began to help students academically ...

Veronica Alvarez was 4 when her family came to the U.S. from Cotija in Michoacán, Mexico, a small town famed for its cheese. Her father picked avocados amid the scorching heat in the San Fernando ...

For most of us, Columbia is such a great place to live and work, still small-town, with plenty of culture, innovation, and education. But beneath its heavily academic veneer lies a stark reality: the ...

UNICEF works with governments and other partners to address the impacts of poverty on children and to mitigate poverty-related risks to their health, education and well-being. A look at recent and ...

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Theo Bray is in his 12th week of recovery from a near-fatal car accident that left him with multiple fractures in his vertebrae, hip and pelvis. Bray, who has a bachelor's degree, helps support his ...

This story originally appeared on Spotlight PA. More than a week after the deadline to complete the budget, Pennsylvania lawmakers remain at odds over how much additional funding to send to the ...

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) initiative, launched by the Federal Government, has received a warm welcome. This enthusiasm is unsurprising, given Nigeria’s longstanding structural ...

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