105-Year-Old Man Bill Mohr Receives His High School Diploma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8swAPwLsgM It’s nearly impossible to watch Bill and Josie Mohr without cracking an enormous smile. Their happiness is too contagious. The couple from Philadelphia has a lot to be happy about. They just celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary and Bill’s 105th birthday. And if that wasn’t enough, on Sunday, Bill earned his high school diploma, […]

A Philadelphia School’s Big Bet on Nonviolence

Last year when American Paradigm Schools took over Philadelphia’s infamous, failing John Paul Jones Middle School, they did something a lot of people would find inconceivable. The school was known as “Jones Jail” for its reputation of violence and disorder, and because the building physically resembled a youth correctional facility. Situated in the Kensington section […]