Asserting that nonprofits now lag behind industry in technological innovation due to lack of funding, Google unveiled its remedy yesterday. It announced $23 million in grants to organizations that are advancing society but asking nothing in return.
After getting their money from the government, South Carolina State University decided to clear 10 million in student debt of 2,500 students.
Walmart has announced it will pay for 100% of college tuition for its staff continuing education, and it will cover the cost of books too.
Target in the U.S. is offering debt-free degrees, textbooks, and more to 340,000 part-time and full-time staff members.
4-year-old Brigitte Xie just started playing piano during lockdown, but was so good she won a competition to play Carnegie Hall.
Sometimes change happens in the most unlikely ways, fostered by the most unlikely of people. In the last few years, while Israel's relationship with the Arab and Muslim world has drastically deteriorated, an Israeli heavy metal band has been uniting thousands of Jews and Muslims across the Middle East. Orphaned Land touts the power of music to turn purported enemies into friends.
Scientists discover that the resting brain repeatedly replays compressed memories of what was just practiced
This earnest youngster is one step closer to her dreams of paleontology thanks to her cute little doodle of dinosaurs.
Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel has wiped the student loan debt out for 284 graduating students at Otis College of Arts and Design.
Chrissy Teigen sent a Twitter shout-out to US teachers asking for their back-to-school year wish lists. She spent a busy day fulfilling them.
Hand-written letters by children were attached to the crates of hard-to-adopt Richmond, VA dogs, and it totally changed their fortunes.
Students who attended three different field trips in fourth or fifth grade scored higher on end-of-grade exams, according to BYU research.
Teens at 5 Chicago Public High Schools are getting free college rides with all expenses paid-and one of their parents can get the same, too.
A STEM-advocate and author has completed a self-set challenge of breaking 52 Guinness World Records in 52 weeks of 2021.
Seven in 10 said it's important to have a job immediately after graduating, while others consider higher education more polarizing.
A Berkeley student from Zimbabwe took a computer science major back home and turned it into free coding classes for at-risk youth.
The lesson at Indiana Wesleyan University's chapel service attended by its 3,000 residential students last week perhaps made an impact like no other, when the speaker ordered two pizzas delivered in order to show how it feels to appreciate someone.
A middle school in Corpus Christi gave their students an impromptu class on kindness, helping them to shower gratitude on a group of construction workers building an addition onto the school. They are calling it Positive Picketing.
Jeff Balek was born blind, but that hasn't stopped him from pursuing one of his favorite past-times – teaching children who can see how to read. With no transportation of his own, getting to the program is a labor of love, but Balek says volunteering through the YMCA in Charlotte, NC to help children overcome their reading barriers has enriched his life in ways he never imagined.
Tondaleya's son Marine Corporal Paul Robinson is stationed at Quantico, Virginia, and hasn't been home to Philadelphia in 5 months, so it was a huge surprise when he walked on stage during her commencement ceremony.
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