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Underdogs Triumph in 2010’s Best Sports Stories
The best story in sports, whether success is achieved through a solo performance, by a team, or a whole nation of fans, is that...
Korean Vocational Training Center Teaches Afghans Invaluable Skills
The Korean Vocational Training Center, opened earlier this year on Bagram Air Field, is wrapping up training for its first class of Afghan students....
6 Young Environmental Leaders Win Prestigious Brower Award
They are the green generation. Six young people who are doing incredible things to safeguard the environment were honored this week with the prestigious...
Ex-Sitcom Star Tony Danza Teaches High School English With Passion
One of the most striking reality shows this fall features Tony Danza -- the actor from Taxi and Who's the Boss -- teaching 10th...
Five Winners Announced in Google’s $10 Million Contest to Change the World
Google yesterday announced the five winners of Project 10^100, a contest of ideas for changing the world by helping as many people as possible.
150,000...
Jimmy Carter Wins Release of American from North Korea
Former President Jimmy Carter left North Korea this morning having secured the release of Mr. Aijalon Mahli Gomes. Mr. Gomes was imprisoned by Pyongyang...
3 Year-old Saves Dad by Walking Two Blocks to Fire Station
Alesaundra Tafoya's parents have been teaching their daughter about safety, pointing out such safe havens as the local fire stations if she ever finds...
New Video Series: Portraits of Inspiring Lives
Many years ago, a $600-million-dollar man changed the life of Jack Canfield, who later became America's #1 success coach and co-author of the most...
Giving Kids Social Skills to Get Ahead
Growing up in the digital age, kids may not be regularly practicing skills that could get them into a favorite college or impress adults...
Autistic Honors Student Delivers Stirring Graduation Speech
18-year-old Eric Duquette, who didn't speak until the age of five, but now is fluent in Spanish, inspired his high school classmates last week...
Softball Team Could Have Won 50-0, But Chose to Forfeit and Teach Opponents how to Improve
A junior varsity girls' softball team from inner city Indianapolis was playing their first-ever game with only scant equipment and no experienced coaching staff.
Losing...
Walmart Donates 1.2 Million to Put Solar Power on Schools
Schools in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Minneapolis and Seattle will receive solar panel arrays paid for by the Walmart Foundation. The grant...
The 9 Year-old Microsoft Genius
A boy studying in a dilapidated school in Macedonia is the youngest Microsoft systems engineer in the world. He holds four Microsoft certificates and...
Green Charter Schools Teach by Using Natural World
Housed in a refurbished 19th-century brick silk mill, the Seven Generations Charter School, a kindergarten-through-fourth-grade elementary school in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, is one of many...
Teacher of the Year Honored for Letting Students Create With Individual Learning Styles
In the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, President Obama honored the 2010 National Teacher of the Year, Sarah Brown Wessling, from Johnston High...
Hip-hop DJ Drops Rhymes for Dung to Encourage Youth Volunteering
A London hip hop DC is the face of Radio 1's Local Hero initiative, aimed at encouraging young people to take up charity work....
Chef Dumps Junk Food as New Chief of Baltimore School Lunch Menus
As renowned chef Jamie Oliver wraps up his successful Food Revolution TV show in Huntington, West Virginia where he transformed the school lunch menu...
Harmonica Man Cheats Death With Music
After his ninth heart surgery, 70-year-old Andy Mackie's doctors had him on 15 different medicines. But the side effects made life miserable. So one...
Bridging a Class Divide, One English Lesson at a Time
In Honduras, Ana Carolina Ebanks was a public defender. But when she immigrated to the United States six years ago, the career did not...
Wild Horses Mesmerized by Native American Drumming
Jill Starr works to save American mustangs and domestic horses from abuse. Her organization now includes Red Horse Nation, which helps Native American youths...