Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships.
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Japanese schools do not have proms.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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In China, teachers allow children to sleep in class for around 20 minutes to help improve their learning.
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