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Who's Helen Keller?
Do children's books distort the truth of Helen Keller's life?
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Stitching together the social fabric for young mothers in Appalachia
Carrol Layfield manages a quilting group of older women from Ritchie County, West Virginia, who used to work in the area’s garment industry. Using techniques handed down over generations, the women piece together quilts from remnants of fabric from shuttered factories. Kayla Turk is a young mother of two children who returned home to Ritchie County to live with her parents when her husband was laid off. At a communal baby shower, Kayla receives a quilt from the older women, and discovers a network of support.
June 27, 2019
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Learning From the Inside
Educators working in locked facilities have a lot to offer—to their students and to their public-school colleagues.
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Students Need Skills to Say No to Fist Fights
We must teach conflict resolution, empathy and individual responsibility to students as deliberately as we teach math and science. Schools will not get better until we do.
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Comprehensive Coverage
Baltimore schools forge innovative partnerships for mental health.
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I'm Smart in a Different Way
A high school student with Down Syndrome talks about his world -- and his life at school.