American wins Global Teacher Prize for work with immigrants
Paris (AFP) - The annual Global Teacher Prize, which comes with a million-dollar cheque, was awarded Wednesday to an American teacher from the US state of Maryland in recognition of her efforts to educate and mentor immigrant pupils from poor backgrounds. Keishia Thorpe, who teaches English at the International High School Langley Park in Bladensburg, was awarded the prize by French actress Isabelle Huppert at the headquarters of UN education and culture agency UNESCO in Paris. Thorpe dedicated the prize, financed by the Varkey Foundation, to "every little black boy and girl that looks like me...