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Joplin, Mo., Students Return to School Three Months After Deadly Tornado

For a town desperately seeking a return to some sense of normalcy, the ringing of school bells is more welcome than even the high-tech gifts being handed to many of Joplin's students on their first day back in school. "You can judge a community by the way it takes care of its kids," said C.J. Huff, a Joplin schools superintendent. "We take care of our kids. Every student in ninth- through 12th-grade will have a computer on their first day." Huff is somewhat of a hero in this Missouri town,...Full Story
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