Michelle Rhee's overhaul of the D.C. school system is the latest entry in a long history of attempts to improve public education in the U.S. Some highlights:

Not even a seemingly noble cause can distract Intel from the developing-world marketing efforts we wrote about in "Intel's Amazon Ambitions" (February). After long dismissing the efforts of the One Laptop Per Child foundation to give computers to millions of poor children, Intel joined the organization's board and began adapting its microprocessors to the OLPC's needs. Read More »

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Winner of the 2007 "Outstanding Social Entrepreneur" award from the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

The man in the giant canary suit on Sesame Street talks about staying fresh, fighting with Elmo, and making football players cry.

Every year, two weeks before Christmas, Jeff Comment, CEO and chairman of Helzberg Diamonds, trades his business suit for a Santa suit and visits children's hospitals across the country.

Civitas has an all-business approach to achieving its goals for kids.

Dr. Irwin Redlener has spent his career devising solutions to large-scale problems of health care for disenfranchised children. The latest expression of his single-minded agenda combines excellence in pediatric care with cutting-edge design, the latest technology, and the worldview of Carl Sagan.

There's much going wrong in the land of silicon and software. But there's one important thing going right.

As executive director of the Chicago Children's Choir, Nancy Carstedt runs a high-impact, fast-growing nonprofit that touches the lives of tens of thousands of children.

The BPL's youth wing has been transformed into a spiffy haven for neighborhood kids.