This 11-year-old has a beautiful plan to encourage kindness in his community – The El Paso Challenge
Ruben Martinez is an 11-year-old boy from El Paso, Texas, who has come up with a unique way to spread hope and kindness after two tragedies in the form of mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton shook the country this weekend. The boy has initiated the El Paso Challenge under which he is challenging each person in El Paso to do 22 acts of kindness for others in honor of the 22 people who died that day. “He...
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Scotland’s new plastic bottle return scheme could lead to 11 million of them getting recycled annually
Scotland is all set to introduce a Deposit Return Scheme under which people would be required to pay a 20 pence deposit when buying drinks contained in single-use plastic or glass bottles and aluminum or steel cans, and they can get their deposit back when they return the empty container for recycling. With a 20 pence incentive not to throw away your empties, Zero Waste Scotland estimates a 90% reduction in...
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“Learning is not a competition,” says Singapore’s Education Minister; does away with exam rankings
Singapore’s Minister of Education Ong Ye Kung feels that young children shouldn’t see learning as a competition, but as a form of self-discipline. This is why Ong has decided to abolish exam rankings and instead focus on a child’s own level of achievement, apart from that of his or her peers. Under the new system introduced by the minister, pupils will be graded according to broad achievement...
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Two California professors arrange a set of seesaws across the US-Mexico border wall for kids from both sides to play together
Two college professors from California, Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, just gave a new ‘unifying’ twist to the border wall that separates the US and Mexico. The duo built a “Teeter-Toller Wall” into the slatted border fence which includes a set of seesaws that allow children and adults from both sides of the fence to play together, while still being in their own respective countries. Rael and...
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