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13-Year-old Recycles Cooking Grease into Heating Oil for Needy Families
After reading an article in the local newspaper, Cassandra Lin of Westerly, Rhode Island discovered that many residents could not afford to heat their...
15-Year-old Wins $10,000 Hero Award for Providing Eyewear to Poor
Most kids with vision problems don't look past the tip of their own nose when it comes to the issue of prescription eyewear. But...
Obama Signs Student Loan, Road-Building Bill
President Barack Obama signed legislation Friday that accomplished two important goals -- keeping thousands of construction workers on the job rebuilding America's infrastructure and...
CodeNow Teaches City Kids Coding, Sparking Lifelong Interest
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs, who changed the way we live, all had this in common: Access to technology at an early...
Video of Bullies Taunting Bus Driver Goes Viral, Raises $160,000 to Give Her Vacation
A former bus driver, who in her senior years works as a bus monitor, sat patiently through ten minutes of relentless and brutal bullying...
9-Year-old Silenced By Politicians Has Changed School Lunches Forever
A blog started by 9-year-old Martha Payne of western Scotland document in photos the daily lunches she was being served in her public primary...
UnitedHealth Will Keep Some ObamaCare Reforms Regardless of Supreme Court Opinion
The nation's largest health insurance company said it would continue with some of the reforms mandated by the Affordable Care Act regardless of how...
Student Engineering Project Helps Girl Feed Herself
For their their senior project, six Marquette University engineering students chose to design and manufacture a device that would help a physically-challenged 11-year-old girl...
Prodigy Becomes a Doctor at 21 (Video)
This week, 21-year-old Sho Yano will complete the journey he began as a 9-year-old college freshman, becoming one of the youngest students in history...
Patience and Drive Earns Down’s Syndrome Man a Black Belt
A young man with Down's Syndrome has earned a black belt in karate, inspired by Bruce Lee movies he studied as a child.
Dustin Bean...
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 Plays Comedian-in-Chief at Media Correspondents Dinner (Video)
On Saturday night, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attended the White House Correspondent's Dinner, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the annual social event...
College Grads’ New Company Recycles Coffee Grounds into Gourmet Mushrooms You Can Grow at Home
When two college students in Oakland discovered they could grow mushrooms in used coffee grounds, they started a company to recycle the waste from...
At Urban LA School, Nature Grows and Test Scores too
Biological diversity does not come easily in one of the most crowded and disadvantaged neighborhoods of Los Angeles County.
In that setting, Leo Politi Elementary...
Dalai Lama Visits Hawaii, Talks up Peace Through the “Power of Aloha”
The Dalai Lama brought his message of peace and compassion -- and his trademark humor -- to Hawaii, celebrating the coming together of two...
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...
$83 million for High Schools in 2010 Means Fewer Kids Failing and in Trouble Today
Students at Detroit area high schools have become confident readers thanks to a corrective reading class for students who have trouble decoding words. Freshman...
All Graduates of Chicago Urban HS Accepted into 4-Year Colleges for 3rd Year in a Row
For the third consecutive year, 100 percent of the graduating seniors from the Urban Prep Academy, the nation's first all-boys public charter high school,...
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...
Tsunami Relief Heroes Honored in Japan at Baseball’s Opening Game
Although baseball's Ichiro Suzuki was the star player of the opening day game in Tokyo, this week, all eyes were on the tsunami heroes...