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Eastern Standard April 11, 2024

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Lamar Zala Gran, speaking at recent ZIVA Voices conference in Lexington
ZIVA Voices
Lamar Zala Gran, speaking at recent ZIVA Voices conference in Lexington

Follow Lamar Zala Gran’s journey from the harsh rule of the Taliban of Afghanistan to the campus of Berea College in Kentucky.

Check your county’s education report card with this comprehensive guide. It’s from the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. We get details from Prichard’s CEO, Brigitte Blom.

Hear about the expectations of high school students from Minhul Nazeer and Raima Dutt of the KY Student Voice Team.

Lexington’s new Youth Poet Laureate hopes to find poetry in law.

Yana Gorokhovskaia, research director for strategy and design at Freedom House, discusses her report, "Foreign Governments Silencing International Students and Educators in the United States."

Tom Martin hosts Eastern Standard, a weekly radio magazine of interviews and stories about interesting people, places, and things happening in the Commonwealth.
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