education
This Just In: Why Girls Get Better Grades Than Boys
A new study about education tops this week's current events roundup.
By Casey Lewis
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Kennedy Donnelly on Biking Across the Country for Pencils of Promise
This seventeen-year-old spent her summer cycling through America to raise money to build a school.
By Sierra Tishgart
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Giving Back: Amandla Stenberg and the Ubuntu Education Fund
The thirteen-year-old actress, who played Rue in The Hunger Games, is working with an organization that provides health and educational support to children in South Africa.
By Sierra Tishgart
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Giving Back: Kayli Stollak of R.E.A.D.
This philanthropist is providing textbooks and scholarships to orphaned schoolchildren in Kenya.
By Sierra Tishgart
Hot Topic: Relating To Adults
Out of Bounds--Teachers and coaches can often be so cool you forget they're adults. But where do you draw the line?My sophomore English teacher and I had a close relationship, but one day, all that...
By teenvogue.com
14-year-old Ty'Sheoma Bethea Becomes Face of Education Stimulus
Standing next to the ever-fashionable Michelle Obama at last night's State of the Nation address was 14-year-old Ty'Sheoma Bethea. A student at J.V. Martin Junior High in Dillon, S.C., Ty'Sheoma decided to draft a letter...
By Lindsay Talbot
Barack Obama Goes Back to School
Barack Obama's stimulus package, which Congress is voting on today, is certainly multi-faceted. In yesterday's New York Times, Sam Dillon goes in depth on one of the plan's tenets: Education. The proposed plan would "shower...
By Lindsay Talbot