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California offers college students $10K for public service

The new public service program will subsidize tuition for students who do community service alongside their studies.

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'Your heart smiles': Friends cheer on 7-year-old until he makes a shot on the basketball court

"Let's go, Andrew. Let's go!" Those were the encouraging words from students as their friend made several attempts to score a bucket.

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Woman leaves $10 Million donation to Music School Of Delaware in her will

The Music School of Delaware hit its highest note yet, with an unprecedented donation from a woman who never donated to the school before.

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New app helps track random acts of kindness

The team behind the Kindland campaign developed the “Just Be Kind” app to track all the good deeds that often fly under the radar.

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11-year-old creates school closet to help students in need

At the heart of one girl’s mission is kindness. She’s busy providing a new way her classmates in need can get clothing at school for free.

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High School Lets Seniors Dress Up for Hilarious School ID Photos

Senior year of high school is one that many people never forget. From prom to graduation, it is filled with memorable milestones.

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Teen shows that kids cans expand their capacity for kindness through homework

What started as a class assignment ended up igniting a philanthropic fire within Aidan Turner.

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EXPLAINER: Why are schools revisiting gifted education?

NYC officials announced plans this month for its school system, the country's largest, to phase out gifted and talented student programs.

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Eyeglasses for school kids boosts academic performance

Three-year clinical study is the most robust analysis to date linking access to eyeglasses with higher test scores, especially for students

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Assigned classroom seats can promote friendships between dissimilar students

Students of varying gender, ethnicity, educational achievement were more likely to become friends after induced proximity

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Dance program sparks joy while teaching cultural diversity

A dance program brings the community together and sparks joy, even after suffering a huge loss at the start of the pandemic.

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Music billionaires Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine to launch a new public high school in south LA

Dr. Dre and music industry mogul Jimmy Iovine hated school which makes them an unlikely force behind a new public high school project