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Tribute to Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck (1920-2012)
Jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck died Wednesday -- a day before his ninety-second birthday. He was best known for his 1959 album "Time...
Google Gives $23 Million To 7 Charities for High Tech Innovations
Asserting that nonprofits now lag behind industry in technological innovation due to lack of funding, Google unveiled its remedy yesterday. It announced $23 million...
New York Students Provide Truckload of Supplies to Schools in Afghanistan
School supplies traveled 7,800 miles from New York to Afghanistan after students from Windsor Central High School collected more than 70 boxes for the...
School Behind Bars Elevates Juveniles Who Need Hope
There is a school at one Virginia county juvenile detention center where troubled youths work toward high school diplomas and credit their teachers with...
Martin Sheen Thanks His Newspaper Delivery Lady: App Honors Workers by Saying “Thanks”
“Thanks for the work you do” is heard all too rarely, says the AFL-CIO, which has launched a creative new digital application to help...
Our Public Employees Are American Heroes
Forget about going all the way to the London Olympics for heroes. This weekend, we saw real heroes right here in America. First, look...
Boy Rallies Restaurants to Recycle Used Crayons for Schools in Need
After a family dinner at a local Outback Steakhouse, Yoni Kalin noticed the waiters tossing into the trash small packs of crayons given out...
Tribute to Sally Ride, First US Woman in Space (1951-2012)
Even though she was well known as a physicist, Sally Ride became famous for being the first American woman astronaut to enter space. A...
Girl’s “Amazing” Graduation Gift From Dad is a 13-year Labor of Love
For 13 years, Bryan Martin kept the book hidden from his daughter, dutifully taking it to her teachers, coaches and school principals every year...
In Age of Bullying, Special Needs Student Elected Prom King
Scott Shaver and Katie Buell were crowned prom king and queen last week at Westview High School. Sound typical? Yes, but Westview is not...
Obama Honors Burbank Middle School’s Best as 2012 Teacher of the Year
In a country blessed with an abundance of extraordinary educators, what does it take to stand out as the Teacher of the Year? According...
Refugees Discover Online Education to Change Their Futures
Recently, there has been a growing recognition of the benefits that higher education can bring to refugees, and to countries like Afghanistan, Somalia and...
Teaching Kindergartners About Emotions: The Latest Brain Science Goes to School
Brain science is being used in planning school lessons for 200 students in kindergarten through third grade at the one progressive private school in...
Aussie College Grad Builds First Night School in East Africa
Kyle De Souza created the first Masaai night school in East Africa, where he spent seven months building solar and wind infrastructure that could...
What’s Good In the Hood: Teens Start Good News Paper, Thwarting City’s Image as “Godforsaken”
Since Boston Magazine published an article one month ago naming Lawrence, Massachusetts the "City of the Dammed” and calling it "godforsaken", outraged residents have been...
Green Schoolhouse Project Breaks Ground on First LEED School Built by Volunteers
Lesson plans in public schools across the country now include sustainability and environmental awareness but many teachers in overcrowded classrooms are having to teach...
The Greening of London’s Olympic Park Includes Clean-up of Toxic Site
London is using its plans for the 2012 Olympic games to revitalize neighborhoods, clean up a polluted industrial site and generate a large urban...
No More Textbooks: Students Read Better With Books They Choose
In Rhode Island, teachers in a local public school have overcome animosity between their charter school counterparts, to joined together and dramatically raise reading...
Education Succeeds Without Standardized Tests
Marin County educators gathered this week to imagine a world without standardized tests, one in which teachers would teach less and students would study...
Obama Launches Marshmallow Cannon at WH Science Fair (Video)
Who says science can’t be fun?
At the second annual White House Science Fair last week, President Obama got the chance to shoot a marshmallow...