What does an NFL player do during months of forced lockout and unending labor disputes with football team owners? Some athletes are spending the time working out with teammates, but Denver safety David Bruton has set himself on a different path — he's spending the lockout as a substitute teacher at his old high school in Ohio, teaching social studies.
Math. The very word conjures painful memories: long division . . . Square roots. Take that unpopular academic subject, a dedicated visionary, and $23 three million, and what have you got? Glen Whitney's Museum of Mathematics (MoMath for short) which opened December in New York City.
A 10-year-old boy was moved to tears when he saw the Space Shuttle Endeavour fly over his school on its way to its new home at the California Science Center and even more excited when he could walk around the gargantuan space craft at the museum, touching the tires that flew in space. Suddenly he saw the possibilities of a career in math, science, technology and engineering.
Some people were given an opportunity recently to broadcast their thanks to a favorite teacher. When they say a few words before a camera about how those teachers changed their lives for the better, the video becomes a moving testament to millions of teachers.
Connecticut principal Desi Nesmith had no idea that the special school assembly he orchestrated to honor an educator with $25,000 was actually a surprise event set-up to honor his own achievements. First there was shock, and then tears started to flow after his name was announced as the winner of the national Milken Educator Award.
Not your typical high school , there are very few lectures and students write on walls – everything prepares them to start their own businesses.
Last month, teachers in Chester, Pennsylvania were hailed as heroes when they pledged to work for free after their school ran out of money. The Ellen DeGeneres Show presented a teacher representative with some surprises, including a $100,000 check for their school.
Because most teachers spend their own money to simply buy classroom supplies, imagine the joy across San Francisco area schools last week, when 604 teachers opened the mail to discover that Google would spend more than $600,000 to fund special requests teachers made for outside money to fund pet projects.
Mrs. Flexer has been a first-grade teacher for 41 years, and on her final day, a giant surprise was waiting in her classroom. Students through the generations had returned to let her know she was their favorite.
Kansas businessman Kevin Perz stunned his home economics teacher from 37 years ago, Marilyn Mecham, with a $10,000 thank you check.
A 4th grade student was having a horrible day, being teased about his newly shaven head. His teacher sacrificed her own hair to show the ultimate kindess.
New York high school senior Samantha Garvey appeared Thursday as a guest on the Ellen talk show, where she received a $50,000 scholarship from AT&T to the college of her choice. Last week, Garvey was named a semifinalist in the prestigious Intel science contest, just weeks after her family was forced to move into a homeless shelter and attracted media attention.
A Yugoslavian-born custodian at New York's Columbia University will be trading in his uniform for a cap and gown this weekend when he graduates with honors after working on his degree for 12 years.
A Georgia college student who walked 15 miles each way to attend classes was seriously injured while on his way to school by a hit and run driver. That unfortunate event caused an Atlanta woman to donate her Cadillac so the young man never again has to risk his life to make the five hour trek to school.
Sometimes change happens in the most unlikely ways, fostered by the most unlikely 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, touting the power of music to turn purported enemies into friends.
Archaeologists have long held that North America remained unpopulated until about 15,000 years ago, when Siberian people walked or boated into Alaska and then moved down the West Coast. But a dark, tapered stone blade, found near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, turned out to be 22,000 years old, suggesting that its makers probably paddled from Europe and arrived in America thousands of years ahead of the western migration.
Sixty-four-year-old Glory Rigsby felt her life was missing a meaningful achievement, so she decided to do something about it. Tonight , the Gulfport woman will don a cap and gown and walk across the stage at the Coast Coliseum to celebrate earning her GED.
High School seniors Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao want to continue pursuing a solution for how to make plastic decompose using natural bacteria already evolving on the planet. The two were finalists for Canada's top student biotechnology award, the 2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge, where their project was judged to have the greatest commercial potential of any project entry, valued at $10 million. Now they are bringing their ideas to the TED stage.
Simple yellow Post-it notes with the message "When not in use, turn off the juice," pointedly left on classroom computers, printers and air-conditioners, have helped New York public schools save $350,000 annually on utility bills. Other ideas have also achieved greater and greater energy savings.
A school's "mileage club" started in the fall 2009 with the idea of handing out charms as an incentive for kids to run during recess has surprised everyone. Fitness scores have rocketed and disciplinary problems dwindled.
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