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Las Vegas Principal Goes Door to Door Hoping To Beat The Odds
Nevada has the lowest high school graduation rate in the country. But now a multi-million dollar federal grant is helping one district turn its...
Ellen DeGeneres Helps Heroic Teacher Who Pledged to Work for Free
Last month, teachers in Chester, Pennsylvania were hailed as heroes when they pledged to work for free after their school district ran out of...
How to Get a $106,000 College Education for Free
How would you like to go to a private liberal arts college that will give you a full-ride tuition scholarship for four years? Antioch...
A Runner for Cancer Decides to Become Oncologist After Losing Father
Jenna Norton is not your typical medical school applicant. In fact, until two years ago, she had never considered a career in medicine. It...
Google Joins With Angels to Bankroll Education Microloan Upstart Vittana
Vittana, the Seattle non-profit that’s facilitating micro-loans to students in developing countries, has received a $250,000 grant from Google. Seattle tech CEOs are also...
Math Prodigy Proud of His Autism
Jake Barnett, an Indianapolis 13-year-old, has been acing college math and science courses since he was eight years old. At 13, he is a...
Inner City Black Kids Dominate Rich Man’s Sport, Win Polo Championship
Polo is expensive, exclusive and played mostly by wealthy white men. But that didn't matter to Lezlie Hiner. In 1996, she started the first-ever...
More Than Go-fers: 4 Worthwhile Internships
The long-running joke about interns is that they do little more than get coffee and collate papers. While there's usually no escaping menial labor...
Cash Grants Allow Cutting Edge Science Experiments in UK Schools
Schools are being encouraged by the UK's top scientific body to bring cutting edge science into the classroom. Projects, funded by the Royal Society,...
1,500 Employees Skip Holiday Party to Transform Local Farm
In place of a holiday party, computer technology company NVIDIA conducted one of Silicon Valley's largest-ever employee volunteer events, with 1,500 employees and community...
MIT to Offer Free, Graded Web Courses
Earning an A from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will never be easy, but next spring, students in at least one class will be...
Justin Bieber Visits Impoverished Las Vegas School, Donates $100,000
On Friday, teenage pop sensation Justin Bieber played a special Christmas concert and donated $100,000 for the east Las Vegas elementary school nationally-renowned for...
Student, 17, Wins $100,000 Scholarship for Cancer Treatment Invention
You can't put a price on the importance of medical innovation, but $100,000 will do nicely for a Cupertino, California high school senior.
Angela Zhang...
Phillies Player Makes $1.2 Million Donation in Apparel To Local Schools
Philadelphia baseball star Ryan Howard is helping students in 57 city high schools to dress for success -- in athletics.
The first baseman -- who...
The Plea that Opened Hearts; Inner-city School Teacher Takes Action
"The school year had barely begun at Admiral Seymour elementary when teacher Carrie Gelson, frustrated after a difficult day at work, wrote an impassioned...
Magic Johnson Thrives 20 Years On as Hero Who Demystified HIV
20 years ago, basketball all-star Magic Johnson stepped to the microphones at a Los Angeles press conference to tell the world he was HIV-positive....
How One Tech Giant Gives Back to Education
Intel is on a mission to bring computers to young people in developing regions. Since September 2009, a team of 100 Intel employees has...
Couple Donate $150 Million to Fight Poverty in Developing Nations
Stanford University will open an institution with the sole purpose of alleviating poverty in developing nations, thanks to a $150 million gift donated by...
Canadian City Delivers On 1000 Acts of Kindness Challenge
Even the police stepped up to the challenge issued by London, Ontario to perform 1000 acts of kindness as a community this October. With...
10 Tips from College Admissions Officers
Between studying for the SATs, crafting the perfect application essay and, of course, figuring out how to pay for tuition, college prep can be...