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New Memoir Explores The Plight Of Appalachia’s Talented Young People

Virginia writer Emilee Hackney has a complicated relationship with her home. She loves the place where she’s from, in Tazewell County — her friends, family, the swimming holes and mountains and wild places — but she also felt stifled. Her new memoir "All That’s Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir" explores this tension and her experience when she did leave. Inside Appalachia Host Mason Adams spoke with Hackney about the book.

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National Study Shows W.Va. Students Making Strides In Math Ability

One in five students in West Virginia has better math scores on standardized tests than in 2019, good enough to give West Virginia the sixth best math achievement growth in the country on the Education Scorecard.

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The Front Porch: Does Harvard Have an Asian-American Quota?

Is Harvard University is keeping out qualified Asian-American applicants in the interest of racial diversity? That’s what is alleged in a lawsuit.On The…

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