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Obama Writes Excuse for 11-year-old who Missed School to Attend Speech
11-year old Tyler Sullivan never made it into school on Friday, but he had a pretty good excuse.
After the boy and his dad watched...
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...
Free Bicycles Help Keep Indian Girls in School
The daily trip to high school was expensive, long and eventually, too much for Indian teenager Nahid Farzana, who decided she was going to...
Refugees Discover Online Education to Change Their Futures
Recently, there has been a growing recognition of the benefits that higher education can bring to refugees, and to countries like Afghanistan, Somalia and...
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...
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...
What’s Good In the Hood: Teens Start Good News Paper, Thwarting City’s Image as “Godforsaken”
Since Boston Magazine published an article one month ago naming Lawrence, Massachusetts the "City of the Dammed” and calling it "godforsaken", outraged residents have been...
Famous Buddhist Monk to Lead Open Meditation for Peace in London’s Trafalgar Square
Wake Up London is becoming well-known for organizing meditation flash mobs in Central London every month. The group of young practitioners follow Thich Nhat...
The Amazings: Join a UK Website to Teach Your Skills and Get Paid
Everyone has a skill. Now retirees and other talented individuals in London are invited to share their passions by joining "The Amazings", a new...
Green Schoolhouse Project Breaks Ground on First LEED School Built by Volunteers
Lesson plans in public schools across the country now include sustainability and environmental awareness but many teachers in overcrowded classrooms are having to teach...
Army of Strangers Pitch in to Help Tornado Victims
Hundreds of volunteers pitched in to help the American communities hit hard by tornadoes that ravaged the Midwest and the South.
Young people worked alongside...
The Greening of London’s Olympic Park Includes Clean-up of Toxic Site
London is using its plans for the 2012 Olympic games to revitalize neighborhoods, clean up a polluted industrial site and generate a large urban...
No More Textbooks: Students Read Better With Books They Choose
In Rhode Island, teachers in a local public school have overcome animosity between their charter school counterparts, to joined together and dramatically raise reading...
Education Succeeds Without Standardized Tests
Marin County educators gathered this week to imagine a world without standardized tests, one in which teachers would teach less and students would study...
Dusty African Village Fights Crime with Twitter
When the administrative chief of a western Kenyan village received an urgent 4 a.m. call that thieves were invading a school teacher's home, he...
Obama Launches Marshmallow Cannon at WH Science Fair (Video)
Who says science can’t be fun?
At the second annual White House Science Fair last week, President Obama got the chance to shoot a marshmallow...
Community Kindness Spreads in Honor of Mom and Daughter Who Died
A kindness project has deeply touched the community of Tillamook, Ore., after the death of two locals -- a young mom named Wendy and...
CMA Donates $6 Million for Music Education in Schools
The CMA Foundation has donated another $1.4 million to benefit music education programs for Nashville's public schoola through its "Keep the Music Playing" campaign,...