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Our Lady of Prompt Succor School is expanding to better serve St. Bernard Parish's post-Katrina community with the help of $4.0 million in funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

A survey conducted by Home Learning College among 3,000 adults reveals that 10% of Londoners have used technology to cheat in exams, compared to a 5% national average. However, across the country 38% said the internet helps them gain greater knowledge of their subject and attain better grades.

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The Convoy of the Martyrs

When Shawn Dove of the Open Society Campaign for Black Male Achievement invited me to attend the campaign’s Mid-Western Regional Gathering in Milwaukee recently, I hesitated, not because of my lack of support for the campaign but because of the memories I wanted to leave behind. Nonetheless, the opportunity to spend a day of discussion with the grassroots organizers, intellectuals, and philanthropic partners fighting to improve the lives of black men and boys proved too tantalizing to pass up.

Rob Littlefield was inspired to share his story at StoryCorps in Oklahoma City after others spoke out against bullying.

Fifty years ago, the University of Georgia accepted its first two black students — Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter. Back then, the future journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault called him "Hamp." And she has vivid memories of the day they walked onto campus in 1961.

A landmark report by the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre has found that children in many wealthy European nations and the United States suffer greater inequality than children in numerous industrialized nations.

Girls and boys were thrilled with the recent inauguration of a new high school in the Afghan capital, built as part of a major project in which the government will construct over 1,000 new classrooms in 58 schools in and around Kabul. The project is supported by UNICEF and the Government of Japan.

In our democracy people are fully entitled to protest peacefully and make their views known. But the violence in London today is totally unacceptable.

Ask any one of the 18,000 Rohingya youth at two government-run refugee camps in Bangladesh what they want most, the answer is unequivocally the same: education.