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Prison Program Produces Business Savvy Inmates And Huge Success Rates
The Texas-based Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) believes that helping inmates prepare to start their own businesses when they leave prison will reduce the likelihood...
Hollywood A-List Talent Agents Spend Time Mentoring Compton Youth
Compton eighth-grader Edgar Ruelas wants to be the first in his family to attend college. He has some help: high-powered talent agents from Beverly...
Cash-strapped School Sees ‘Outpouring of Love’ After Newspaper Reveals Budget
A report in the Philadelphia Inquirer in November featured a school in Germantown that didn't have any extra money in their budget to even...
Poverty-stricken Student Excels After University Rector Offers Full Scholarship
A poverty-stricken South African teen who lived in a one-bedroom cottage she shared with 3 other people was unable to go to university due...
Our 2014 Top Photo Picks Confirm the Goodness of Humanity
18) Some Police Officers REALLY Do Care
An El Paso Police Officer helped out a homeless man in need during a December, 2013 snowstorm. According...
Boston Teacher Donates $150,000 Prize To Her School
The mayor of Boston this week honored a Dorchester third grade teacher who won a $150,000 online contest and donated the money to her...
Police Chief of LOVE
Brimfield Township Police Chief David Oliver comforted six-year-old Kashe Heffelfinger, who was overwhelmed by the notion of shopping without his mother during a holiday...
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...
Chicago Gave Hundreds of High-risk Teens Summer Jobs and Crime Plummeted
A couple of years ago, the city of Chicago created a summer jobs program for public high school students living in high-crime, low-income neighborhoods....
‘All About That Space’ – NASA Interns Recreate Pop Song (Video)
Interns at NASA's Johnson Space Center created a take-off from a popular song to inspire interest and excitement for Orion's first flight.
“All About That...
Town Lights Up the Night With River of Light
Saturday night in a tiny town in Central Vermont, hundreds of children and artists of all ages will be aglow in a beautiful December...
Remodel Gives Dallas Army Veteran A Home Fit For A Hero
Trista Hopkins, a U.S. Army veteran in Dallas who was raising two daughters in a dilapidated home with holes in the roof and no...
US Senators Push for Tax Deduction for Teachers’ Expenses
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer launched a push Wendseday to reinstate an expired tax break that helps teachers deduct out-of-pocket classroom costs from their taxes....
$2.4 Million Given to 8 Groups Helping Kids Thrive in Inner Cities
For their innovative strategies to help mold positive youth, eight organizations that mentor urban youth in six cities will share grants totaling $2.4 million.
The...
8-Year-old’s ‘Buddy Bench’ for Lonely Kids in the Schoolyard is Catching On
"Sometimes it's the really simple ideas that can make the biggest difference."
A second grader in York, Pennsylvania came up with an idea last year...
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...
VA High Schools Push Back Start Time to Give Teens More Sleep
Students in 22 high schools in the largest county in Virginia will get extra sleep next fall under a new plan approved this week...
OSU Invents “World’s First Solar Battery” to Run on Light and Air
Is it a solar cell? Or a rechargeable battery?
Actually, the patent-pending device is both. The inventors at Ohio State University call it the world’s first...
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...
Christian University Surprises Pizza Guy With $1200 Tip & Standing Ovation
The lesson at Indiana Wesleyan University's Wednesday morning chapel service attended by its 3,000 residential students last week perhaps made an impact like no...