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High School Students Leading a 48 State Voting Drive
Run to Vote combines the sport of track and field with your pledge to vote in 2008. A nonpartisan voting drive led by students...
Solid Signs of Progress for New Orleans Since Storm
As the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina nears, it is beneficial to search for signs of recovery and progress. What can be found...
Non-Profit Teach for America Sees Big Growth
Teach For America announced this week a record number of incoming recruits for fall placement in low-income schools across the country. 3,700 new teachers...
Peace is Delicious for Traditional Foes Who Now Grow Coffee Together
In Uganda, one man went to his neighbors and his friends and brought together three groups of people - Christian, Muslim and Jewish -...
Free Online Materials Could Save Schools Billions
Teachers and their students are quietly experimenting with Free-Reading.net, a little website that could one day rock the foundation of how schools do business....
Encouraging Spontaneity, Thinking Among Students
An innovative program in Little Angels English Medium School in the South of India (Puducherry) has excited the children to participate in class. "The...
NEA Takes Stand Against Homeschooling – Sign the Petition
These statistics, along with the accompanying Wall Street Journal article, show that home-schooled students do exceptionally well. "They excel in (and win) spelling bees,...
NYC School System Honored as ‘Model of Reform’
New York City public schools have won the 2007 Broad Prize for Urban Education, a $1 million award honoring the most improved school systems,...
What Africa Taught a Kindergarten Teacher
SG sent this story saying, I found this so inspiring. We hear about what we can do for others, but look what others...
Boomers Answer Call to Service, in Legislatures and Classrooms
In the last four years, a growing number of boomers — those born between 1946 and 1964 — are showing up in the freshman class of...
Good Golf Raises 400K to Replace New Orleans Books
A $390,000 donation to the Gulf Coast School Library Recovery Initiative will go a long way toward putting books on the shelves and hope...
Hasbro Donates 20,000 Dolls to Poor Kids in Zambia
Thousands of children living in poverty in southern Africa will receive baby dolls, thanks to a donation by Hasbro of 20,000 black Baby Alive...
Video Shooter Game Hooks Kids on Shakespeare
A new space shooter online video game developed by a Canadian University uses lush graphics and challenging quests into outer space to teach a...
What You Think About, You Bring About: the Law of Attraction (Video)
"Your perception determines your experience," says Rev. Michael Beckwith, one of the teachers writing in the hit book, The Secret. Take responsibility for your...
Virginia Tech Shooting: Crisis Charity Offers Tips, Tools to Deal with Aftermath
Following the fatal shooting of dozens of students at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, the national children's crisis charity KidsPeace is issuing expert tips...
School Enrollment Rates Double in Southern Sudan
The number of students enrolled in school in southern Sudan has more than doubled since the end of the long-running civil war two years...
Turn Off the Bad News (Opinion)
If you surf the Internet today and go to any of the news sites, you will find story after story promoting bad news. Bird...
A Daily Dose of Awe and Gratitude
Most of us wake up thinking about how we are going to meet obligations or fulfill our promises to other people. We begin our...
1,500 Volunteers to Build 6 Playgrounds in One Day for New Orleans Schools
Students at six New Orleans elementary schools will soon have new places to swing, slide and play, after 1,500 volunteers gather in a one-day...
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...