For 10 years, an extraordinary volunteer effort has taken aim at the troubling racial achievement gap in Madison, Wisconsin public schools. Leslie Huber reports on ...
As the fourth September 11, 2001 anniversary approaches, several kids are turning the day into a reason to celebrate their community connections and civic engagement. ...
This week, we present the fourth and final winning essay from Connect for Kids' essay contest, "Speak Out, Let Your Voice Be Heard." Learn how 17-year-old Lisa ...
Groundwater might not sound like the most exciting source for learning. But thanks to new efforts led by Lincoln, Nebraska's Groundwater Foundation, hundreds of kids ...
It's the ultimate back-to-school story: about 80 middle-aged Virginians are heading back to the classroom--more than four decades after their educations were derailed ...
It's a different kind of bicultural family, and one with special challenges—from safely supervising a toddler you can't hear cry to heading off a teacher who ...
This year ZOOM, an educational show aimed at 8- to 12-year-olds, joins a growing list of cancelled PBS KIDS programs, including The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact ...
Karen Dorame has spent the past few years teaching professional photographers something about seeing how to see the beauty in every child. She includes some helpful ...
My recent trip to Beijing to conduct workshops on ?American style? journalism with children between the ages of 7 and 18 was one of several I?ve made to a number of ...
SES student seining at Birch PondThe solar-powered kayak, complete with motor and prop, lying near the front entrance of the School of Environmental Studies serves as ...
Young students outside their C.O.W."The COW bus is here!"
For preschoolers in some Las Vegas neighborhoods, the sight of the big white bus with black splotches like ...
Portland, Maine high school senior Ashley Keiran is an expert in something she feels Portland teachers should know more about—how hard it can be to meet the ...
I will never look at my Saturday afternoons in quite the same way. This winter my previously immovable soccer-watching mania was usurped by classes in a tiny ...
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In Eureka, Arkansas, an ever-growing after-school program demonstrates that by supporting kids, a community can tap into an often-ignored source of strength: kid ...
They do crafts. They sell cookies. And twice a month the girls in the Columbia River, Oregon Girl Scouts Beyond Bars troop spend a couple of hours at the Coffee Creek ...
While teens use the Internet day in and day out, new research indicates that many struggle to find their way through the Web's vast stores of information. Rob ...
Picture books on the radio? It sounds strange, but expert grandmother Nancy Pekarek thought it could be a great imagination workout for video-saturated 4-to-6 year ...
Marianne Larned wanted to show kids the gift of giving, so she invited 100 friends to share their stories of working to make the world a better place. Stone Soup for ...
