The Paper Clips Project emerged in Whitwell, Tennessee to engage rural Tennessee students in Holocaust education. Meanwhile, in nearby McMinn County, the school board has taken a key source from eight ...

LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) - Every middle school student must learn about the Holocaust, but few receive the lesson in the unique way some Lufkin Middle School eighth graders are being taught. It's called the ...

She said the Paper Clip project grew out of her school’s effort to teach “what can happen when intolerance and hatred are allowed to flourish.” Since completing the Paper Clip project in 2001, ...

BLOUNTVILLE – A simple class project at a Tennessee middle school grew into an extraordinary international landmark thanks in no small part to the inspiration of school’s principal. Northeast State ...

SIOUX CITY -- More than 20 years ago, a middle school principal in a small Tennessee town wanted her students to learn a lesson about tolerance. Despite the fact that the mining town of Whitwell had a ...

A documentary about a collection of 30 million paper clips isn’t common fare at film festivals. But the story of how students at a Tennessee middle school collected the fasteners in a project designed ...

Twenty or so thousand paper clips, all hooked together, hang suspended from the ceiling in a quiet corner of the library at East Valley Academy. They make for a cool-looking display, and at first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1998, almost 25 years ago, Whitwell Middle School Principal Linda Hooper thought their students needed to learn more about ...