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Improvisation Boosts Reading in Poor Inner City School
Rachel Farmer is a fourth-grade teacher in Brooklyn who defies the stereotype of the exhausted teacher, run down by poor inner-city schools. Instead of...
New 2007 Laws Protect Consumers from ID Theft and Citizens’ Rights
State Lawmakers have been busy and their new laws for 2007 are mostly good news for consumers, common citizens and people struggling to make...
Houston Class Donates and Wraps 400 Presents for Families in Need
The British School of Houston has a very special science teacher whose idea of a merry Christmas includes giving lots of presents to families...
Macs Join the Maasai Tribe
Retired tech executive Patrick O'Sullivan, moved by the plight of a Maasai tribe that needed three years to complete a school for their children,...
Schools Replace Gangs in Haiti’s Worst Slum
Books are replacing bullets as the primary focus for children in some of Haiti’s worst slums, where, for years, gunmen have ruled the streets...
Overcoming the Matrix of War in the Middle East
It strains my heart when I see the escalation of the war in the Middle East. Again. For so long already. When will...
UNICEF Launches $150M Recovery Plan Restoring Schools, Clinics Lost in Pakistan Quake
UNICEF will construct 500 permanent schools and some 70 permanent rural health centres in northern Pakistan, the UN Children's Fund said on Wednesday, where...
Maine Extends Giving Laptops to Seventh Graders
Maine extended its successful laptop program in schools last week announcing a contract for Apple Computers to supply new laptops to more than...
The Dalai Lama and Muslim Leaders Hold Historic Peace Gathering
A landmark summit convened yesterday in San Francisco that marked the first time the global Muslim community has engaged the Dalai Lama in an...
Hundreds of thousands of young Sudanese to go to school for first time thanks to UN aid
3 April – In a massive campaign to double the number of children in school as part of peace dividend, hundreds of thousands of...
American College Students Choosing to Teach Inner City Kids
Grad Students Teach America What Gen X is All About
In the spring of 2005, 12 percent of graduating seniors at Yale signed up to...
Why Good News? Counting the Benefits
Good news is often considered too soft and unimportant to be valuable in one’s real life. The truth is, good news can create concrete,...
Diet Linked to Hyper Kids
A revolution has turned around Central Alternative High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, and its ‘problem kids’, sent there from twelve area schools. Respect, achievement,...
Persistence Pays for PhD Student Once Labeled Retarded
Dave Dawson's future looked bleak in 1974. Based on tests, his ninth-grade teachers labeled him mentally retarded. “My vocational expectation was to be a...
All the Good Things About You
He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary's School in Morris, Minn. All 34 of my students were dear...
Operation Smile Turning Disfigured Faces into Smiling Faces
In 16 years, Operation Smile has treated over 45,000 children and young adults with deformities in the U.S. and abroad, offering hope and changing...
Swans Follow Plane to Learn Migration Route
The Trumpeter Swan, native to the Atlantic seaboard for thousands of years, was killed by settlers in such numbers that by 1932 only 69...
New York Cab Driver Returns Bag of Cash, $32,859
On Sunday night, July 13, a 71-year-old woman left a leather satchel filled with her life's savings in cash on the back seat of...