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Selfless Student Surprises Special Classmates with iPads
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"Kids at a middle school in Burien, Washington got quite the surprise Friday -- a stack of iPads with software to help them in...
Community Raises Money to Give Car to Hard-working Family (WATCH)
A San Ramon, California family had a merrier Christmas than they ever thought possible, after a group of community members raised money to surprise...
A Decade After Asian Tsunami, New Forests Protect the Coast
The tsunami that struck Indonesia in 2004 obliterated vast areas of Aceh province. But villagers there are using an innovative microcredit scheme to restore...
The Solution to Pakistan’s Illiteracy Has Schooled 175,000 So Far
According to Pakistan’s Annual Status of Education Report, Pakistan faces an educational emergency. 21% of school-aged children are out of school. That is more...
School With Bikes Instead Of Desks Offers Better Way To Learn
The Read and Ride program at Ward began five years ago. One classroom is equipped with enough exercise bikes for a full class of...
Volunteers of All Faiths Join Assisi Friar, Bring Joy to Poor Kids
In America today, something truly amazing is going viral -- a new spirit of unity and giving.
In that rising spirit, hundreds of volunteers are...
School Kids Show Gratitude With Positive Picketing
A middle school in Lawrence, Kansas gave their students an impromptu class on kindness, helping them to shower gratitude on a group of construction...
Mystery Donor Gives Money To Vandalized Stores In Ferguson, Keeps Town ‘Hopeful’
Neighbors are helping neighbors in the riot-weary town of Ferguson.
An unidentified man delivered encouraging words last week along with envelopes of cash to businesses...
Depressed Dad Gets Surprised By Strangers
Mike Slemko felt like nothing was going his way. His wife had just left him and the internet had been cut off. Because Slemko...
Strangers, Friends Donate Sick Days to Calif. Teacher Battling Cancer
Carol Clark, a sixth-grade teacher who was diagnosed with cancer last year, was forced to use all of her sick and vacation days for treatment.
In...
Bronx School Teacher’s Dream Helps 4,400 Poor Kids Get to College
Concerned about the wide achievement gap that affects children of color, a South Bronx school teacher, Gary Simons, with the support of Columbia University’s...
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Teacher Adopts ‘Holy Terror’ Student No One Else Wanted
Cruz Riojas came from a troubled home: He was reportedly beaten by his stepfather, lived in a decrepit one-room lean-to with six other family...
Women Activists Clean Up and Revitalize Libyan City
In downtown Benghazi, a dark and deserted park is now bustling with life. Fathers and mothers bring their children to play on the new...
Ongoing global education crisis and what young people can do to change it
As a newly-appointed Global Youth Ambassador for A World at School, I want to bring attention to the 57 million children around the world...
‘Good Will Students’ Take Action for the Environment
World Environment Day is June 5. What are you doing for the planet?
Some great American kids in Orange, New Jersey are taking to the streets...
Zuckerberg and Wife Give $120 Million to Public Schools
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, are donating $120 million to help public schools in underserved communities through their foundation, Startup: Education.
In...
Darfur Women Learn English
Women in a refugee camp for Internally Displaced Persons in North Darfur receive English classes conducted by volunteer teachers and facilitated by the UN...
12 Million More Kids in School is Ethiopian Success
The number of children attending primary school in Ethiopia has skyrocketed since 1994 when just 3 million pupils were being educated. By 2008, primary...
Students Discover Math Teacher’s Secret Identity… As Baby Cuddler
With his short gray hair, watchful eyes, authoritative voice and stern manner, high school math teacher and Vietnam veteran Jim O'Connor is used to...