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Thank you for helping me speak

You’ll cry, you’ll cheer – watch as Mushy finds his voice in Educating Yorkshire’s final show Pupil with a lifelong stutter tells his classmates and teachers: ‘Thank you for helping me speak It’s not often you have a little cry and then punch the air while cheering a 16-year-old and his scruffy teacher. But this […]

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 […]