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 ...

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 ...

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is on Jan. 27 this year. On this annual day of commemoration, we are urged to honor those who lost their lives during the Nazi regime. The Holocaust started in ...

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, ...

A paper clip is a small thing. However, that mundane object has come to mean much more for students in a small Tennessee town and of late, paper clips have also transcended their everyday meaning for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linda Hooper volunteers as Coordinator of the Children’s Holocaust Memorial in Whitwell, Tennessee. She is the former mayor of Whitwell and the former principal of the Whitwell Middle School. As ...

When Joe Fab came across a 2001 Washington Post article on a tiny Tennessee school’s project on the Holocaust, making an award-winning documentary out of it was not foremost in his mind. “The story ...

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 ...