For eighth-grade Connecticut student Alye Pollack, daily life at Bedford Middle School involves being tormented and called names by her classmates. T...
American schools need help. Unfortunately, that's no April Fools' joke. On April 1, United Way launched a campaign to rally 1 million volunteers to g...
Fund raisers have long worried about a possible downside to corporate-charity marketing deals--that people who buy a special brand of yogurt or comput...
At one Atlanta homeless shelter, canvases, paint and brushes are among the most important resources available. Inspired by the artistic interests of ...
As the economic crisis continues, states and school districts are playing a cruel game of "pick your poison." To close budget gaps, administrators are...
DURHAM, N.H. -- A nation that prides itself on fighting the abuse of power has an obligation to prevent sexual violence in schools and on college camp...
WASHINGTON -- A Supreme Court divided along ideological lines said Monday that ordinary taxpayers cannot challenge government programs that use tax br...
On most days, Brother Al Mascia pedals his bicycle cart through downtown Detroit handing out much-needed food to homeless people. Mascia, 56, is lean...
When most sports fans fill out their brackets, eager to compete with friends to guess the games' winners, promoting philanthropy isn't usually the fir...
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Northern Maine is 7,000 miles and a world away from China, but that's not stopping a school superintendent from recruiting ...
Are American children facing an unsafe environment at school without adequate health services? This is the question raised in a recent article from P...
"Hi, Mommy. It's me. I've got some good news! I just got a call from Ellen, the committee has cleared me as a [kidney] donor for you. I'm really excit...
-- As lawmakers around the country debate their states' budgets, they're staring over the edge of a massive fiscal cliff – the point where abou...
NEW YORK — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday called for public school teachers to be evaluated based equally on their classroom perform...
NEW YORK -- The city's embattled schools chancellor resigned Thursday after three contentious months on the job, the latest in a series of third-term ...
If the federal government shuts down, 134 children could be locked out of the Head Start program in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. And it wil...
By Laura Zuckerman Idaho's governor on Friday signed into law the final piece of a controversial Republican overhaul of education in the state, as t...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama surprised a group of eighth graders from a Colorado middle school on Monday, just days after they feared a g...
There are certain teachers whose influence can affect students for the rest of their lives, whose names are never forgotten. Doug Forbis hopes to beco...
PHILADELPHIA -- Breast cancer fundraising bracelets that proclaim "I (heart) boobies!" are not lewd or vulgar and can't be banned by public school off...
The nation's smallest citizens are not immune to the growing obesity epidemic, leading political leaders, health experts and educators alike wondering...
Spring may be just around the corner in this poor part of Helsinki known as the Deep East, but the ground is still mostly snow-covered and the air has...
What does it take to have economic stability in America? That was the question posed by the organization Wider Opportunities for Women, which recentl...
Freshly-appointed Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott has already made good on at least one promise - to make waffles for the kids of Park Slope's PS 10...
When her twin brother was shot and killed, in what remains an unsolved crime, Carletta Temple was devastated. Realizing that other members of her com...
