As California closes three more prisons and downsizes six others, some people incarcerated there aren’t ready to go. They are worried about the future of their educations. For more than 1,500 ...

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For decades, students living in Alaska’s most far-flung coastal inlets, mountain ranges, and northern villages have relied on correspondence schools to provide them with the academic coursework that ...

TILTON, Ill. (AP) -- Correspondence classes might be all but forgotten in these days of online degrees, but Tilton taxidermist Jerry Alcorn owes his second career to a learn-by-mail class he saw in ...