A 6th grade boy, Gerry Orz, persuaded the California state government to declare December 12 as a Day of Silence to officially honor the victims of bullying who cannot speak for themselves. He's calling on schools and people everywhere to take 12 seconds at 12 o'clock on 12/12 to mark in silent reflection.
Perhaps no adult employed at Trinity High School has had more influence over students or changed more young lives than Charles Clark, the school's custodian. Clark has mentored countless kids in need of a father figure at the Texas high school, even housing several of them in his home over the years. In the beginning, he took the custodial position thinking he would keep it until he found something better, but 24 years later, he still hasn't found it. Now Clark, 63, has bested more than 400 teachers, administrators and school district employees from 33 states to become the LifeChanger of the Year Grand Prize Winner.
A commencement ceremony recently celebrated 39 high school students who beat the odds. All these teens thrived given free tuition from Girard College (a boarding school for kids and teens established in 1848 to serve orphans).
For the first time in California history, the high school graduation rate has surpassed 80%, mirroring a trend nationwide, officials announced Monday.
Schools in Guam say there has been a massive decline in the number of reported bullying cases in the past four years -- down by more than 80 percent.
A report in the Philadelphia Inquirer in November featured a school in Germantown that didn't have any extra money in their budget to even buy all the paper they would need. At first, readers responded by sending in reams of paper to Lingelbach Elementary. But then thousands of dollars in donations started arriving -- enough to update books in their library and provide supplies to every teacher.
The Read and Ride program at Ward began five years ago. One classroom is equipped with enough exercise bikes for a full class of students, and teachers bring students throughout the day to use them. As they ride, their reading scores improve.
No good can come from publicly shaming a six-year-old boy. That's the lesson educators at Lincoln Elementary in Grants Pass, Oregon recently learned when the community stepped up to defend a student and help a family in need.
After participating in a prevention program at school, European teenagers were about half as likely to attempt suicide or to feel suicidal, according to a new study involving 11,000 students and published in The Lancet.
Though many don't agree with his politics or love his humor, everyone is talking about Stephen Colbert's generous contribution to education in his home state.
An anonymous letter arrived at Helper Middle School in Utah last week that contained a confession. It also contained a check, 60 years in the making.
The Monarch School caters specifically to kids who are homeless, giving them access to showers, laundry, meals, and the full array of classes.
President Obama and a former astronaut have both invited a teen to science events after his electronics project frightened teachers at his school.
Alabama schools are updating science standards, including once controversial topics and focusing on more hands-on work for students.
A new blog started by a 9-year-old in western Scotland shows daily photos of the lunches she was being served in her public primary school. Just started in early May, her lunch photos went viral in days. She had a million viewers within a few weeks; was written up in major magazines; and won the support of TV chef Jamie Oliver, who kicked off school-food reform in England.
11-year old Tyler Sullivan never made it into school on Friday, but he has a pretty good excuse. After the boy and his dad watched a presidential speech in the front row at the Honeywell factory, the Minnesota boy was shocked when President Obama offered a hand-written note to give his teacher for excusing the absence.
Every once and a while someone does something that restores your faith in humanity. That is how Dayton-area mom, Andy Robinson of Bellbrook, said she felt when two Fairborn students found the wallet her son lost at a high school football game and didn't rest until they returned
In the final stages of cancer, an Arkansas grandmother was unable to hear her grandson in his marching band, playing the trumpet that she had bought him. Instead, the band came to her -- all 120 members with drums and horns and cymbals -- playing a concert beneath her window and granting her last wish.
This stuffed animal saves a seat in the classroom for kids in the hospital for cancer treatments.
Doctors told her she has the heart a 40-year-old woman, but America's oldest teacher is as happy as a teenager. "Granny"-as she is called-turns 102 today.
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