Funds for Arts Education in Public High Schools
Tony Bennett and his wife Susan Benedetto, hosted a gala event for Exploring the Arts on Thursday, Oct. 4, which raised over $1.2M for arts education in NYC public high schools. 17-time Grammy winner Sting opened the evening with a…
Read Your Heart Out for Pizza Hut
BOOK IT!, a national reading incentive program created by Pizza Hut, is beginning its 28th year with enrollment in 680,000 classrooms across the country (U.S.). More than 14 million students in 38,000 schools are involved in the BOOK IT! reading…
Search for Most Inspiring Teacher Begins
For the second straight year, Green Mountain Naturals is searching for America’s most inspirational teacher with its Apple for a Teacher contest. The winning teacher will receive a $10,000 grant to his or her school to continue the great work…
Teaching Table App for Math Lessons
Dallas teacher Rebecca McPherson has developed Teaching Table, an iPad application that allows teachers to create interactive math lessons for their students. The app lets students learn and solve problems by interacting with digital manipulatives — visual representations of math…
Empowering Kids to Choose Books
This back to school season, Kellogg’s, together with Scholastic and Walmart are empowering kids to choose books they love to read, encouraging them to read every day at home. With the purchase of two specially marked Kellogg’s products or one…
Saving Children Displaced by Hurricane Isaac
Save the Children’s emergency response experts are on the ground in Louisiana and Mississippi, providing basic necessities and establishing child-friendly environments within shelters along the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast. This week, Hurricane Isaac caused strong winds, flooding and heavy rainfall in…
Kia Motors’ Help for Public School Students
DonorsChoose.org, an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need, announced Tuesday that Kia Motors America (KMA) has made a $1 million commitment to public schools as part of the citizen philanthropy organization’s first-ever national…
100 Toys that Define Our Childhood
More than 20,000 Children’s Museum of Indianapolis online visitors and fans have voted for their favorite toys from the last century. It is all part of the ‘100 Toys (& their Stories) that Define Our Childhood’ interactive in which the…



















