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Emery Lankford, a 4-year-old preschooler at Hillcrest Developmental Preschool, takes a break from schoolwork to eat lunch. The one-stoplight farming community in conservative Idaho has embraced a goal that backers describe as progressive: universal preschool. (AP Photo/Kyle Green)

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Idaho left early education up to families. One town set out to get universal preschool anyway
By EMILY TATE SULLIVAN OF EDSURGE
Sun,10/29/23-11:12PM , 107 Reads
AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — After reading a book about the five senses to a semicircle of rapt 4-year-olds, Abi Hawker tells the children in her afternoon preschool class that she has a surprise for them.
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Gilbert Kakpo, a Voodoo priest, stands by a a sacred tree, who he claims is the protector of women at the Bohouezoun sacred forest in Benin, on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. “Our divinity is the protector of women,” he says. “If you’re a woman who’s had miscarriages or has given birth to stillborn children and you come here for rituals, you’ll never endure those hardships again ... I can’t count the number of people who have been healed or treated here.” (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred
Sat,10/28/23-11:08PM , 100 Reads
PORTO-NOVO, Benin (AP) — For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives.
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The old St. Nicholas Church stands in Eklutna, Alaska, on Oct. 12, 2023. A three-year restoration effort began Oct. 13, with the removal of the bell tower. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

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Anchorage's oldest building, a Russian Orthodox church, gets new life in restoration project
Sat,10/28/23-11:02PM , 121 Reads
EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska's biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil paintings and jewel-studded incense burners.
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Bryant West poses for a portrait on a basketball court built by NBA star Devin Booker, who went to high school here, in Moss Point, Miss., Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Girls consistently are outperforming boys, graduating at higher rates at public high schools around the country. Students, educators and researchers say there are several reasons why boys are falling short.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Boys graduate high school at lower rates than girls, with lifelong consequences
Sat,10/28/23-11:01PM , 64 Reads
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — They attend the same classes with access to the same programs, and even come from the same families. But girls consistently are outperforming boys, graduating at higher rates at public high schools around the country.
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