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New Book Charts Rural America's Pathways to College and Career College Admissions Expert Turned Nonprofit CEO and Author, Rick Dalton, Provides Steps For Student Success and Rural School Improvement Newswise — ESSEX, NY – More than thirty years ago, college admissions expert Rick Dalton founded the nonprofit CFES Brilliant Pathways to train and become college- and career-ready. Little did he know at the time that a pandemic would blow open an opportunity gap that disproportionately affected low-income students, particularly in rural America. Based in the rural Adirondack Region of North...

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? If you think it’s a given that the phrase “Green New Deal” is toxic to Democrats in Republican-leaning districts, you might want to talk to Chloe Maxmin of Maine. In November, she unseated the state’s GOP Senate minority leader, Dana Dow, with 51 percent of the vote in rural, working-class Distr...

0shares Airgun users aged between 14 and 17 would need the supervision of someone over 21 when using an airgun if proposed changes are passed Shooting groups are lobbying against the Home Office’s proposed amendments to airgun legislation, which would prevent those between 14 and 17 taking an airgun out alone, even in a private garden. Curtis Mossop, BASC’s head of pathways to shooting, said: “The government has significantly underestimated the impact this proposal will have on those who use airguns. As well as for recreation and competitive shooting, thousands of under-18s use t...

At this point, a year into the pandemic, we have all changed how we meet and do business.

More than 300 rural Oklahomans have died from the coronavirus since the first of the year, as the gap between rural and urban deaths from the virus