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70 years after he was supposed to graduate, Jack Fletcher has finished his high school degree.  The 86 year-old dropped out to enlist in the army during WWII, but has longed for a degree ever since.  Watch this inspiring story as he explains how finally got his diploma!    

David Boone is both smart and charming.  If you see him now, you’d never realize that he’d been homeless through part of high school.  But against the odds–including having to sleep on the streets some nights–he has excelled at math and science, earning him a spot at Harvard. “I promised myself I wouldn’t cry at…

He students say that he has an amazing ability to communicate.  The also say that his fellow teachers should try to teach blindfolded so that they can learn how to engage their classrooms!  Watch this amazing story about a blind teacher and how he’s inspired generations of students:    

Dylan’s Cystic Fibrosis treatments consist of long periods of time in a breathing apparatus.  Watch his mom’s creative solution for how to keep him entertained–and athletic!

As soon as they walk in the door, the students make a beeline for their knitting projects.  Once they start knitting a pleasant calm falls over the room as the students settle into their work. These results would speak for themselves in any institution, but when the students are minimum security prisoners–and male prisoners at…

  If you had to work 5-10 times harder than your competitors to accomplish a task, how would you fare? Richelle Zampella must face that exact question everyday as she prepares to compete in the National Spelling Bee. The 11-year-old from Oklahoma is blind which means she has to study by reading Braille. Her teachers…

Watch this Furry Friend pedal his way across the Parking Lot.  With his sky-blue custom bike, he’s got the style of Evil Knieval–and a wagging tail!                  

Cornel Munn, a student at Oxford and a devout Christian, is a talented drummer who lacks nothing as a musician… except arms.  The disabled 20 year-old is a now a viral sensation after showing the world what he is capable of!    

 

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