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• After Moore, Okla., tornado, five women stepped up to help community's teachers
• Jennifer Epps inspires inner-city students and teachers in Los Angeles to excel
• New Type of Boredom Discovered, and It's Rampant

After Moore, Okla., tornado, five women stepped up to help community's teachers Posted: 06 Dec 2013 10:49 AM PST Yahoo News is publishing first-person accounts from Americans who went above and beyond in 2013 to help their local communities after natural disasters and tragedies. Here's one story.

Jennifer Epps inspires inner-city students and teachers in Los Angeles to excel Posted: 06 Dec 2013 06:09 AM PST As she takes a visiting journalist for a tour of the Quincy Jones Elementary School, Jennifer Epps is interrupted by a beaming fifth-grader, Janiyah Williams. Although academics and educational pedagogues might come up with a more complex answer, it's just this kind of utter simplicity that is behind the phenomenal success of Jennifer Epps, the founding teacher, and now principal, of Synergy Charter Academy. SCA shares this elementary school campus with Quincy Jones School but operates with its own funding and budget. Ms. Epps helped lead SCA to a national blue ribbon in 2010 – the highest honor a school can receive in the United States – from the US Department of Education.

New Type of Boredom Discovered, and It's Rampant Posted: 06 Dec 2013 04:36 AM PST "Of particular concern is the relative frequency of apathetic boredom observed in the present research," lead psychologist Thomas Goetz of the University of Konstanz in Germany and his colleagues wrote. Among high-school students studied, they found, apathetic boredom made up 36 percent of their boredom experiences.

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