Virginia Tech converted a classroom building where a student gunman killed 32 people in 2007 into a peace studies and violence prevention center.

NPR: Newtown Board Mulls Plans For Sandy Hook School

Paterno promoted a "Grand Experiment" of doing it the correct way, of not falling prey to the cheap tricks and classroom shortcuts, and building a winning program of integrity.

WSJ: What Penn State Should Tear Down

Young boys and older men with greying beards half-heartedly mixed cement and worked iron rods as we walked through the site and were shown the skeleton of a 16 classroom building.

BBC: Constant violence blocks Afghan progress

He highlights a bright spot: A building in the community converted to a makeshift classroom and library where residents can get tutoring help and then take the GED --- the high school equivalency exam.

CNN: King: Life is bare bones on the Lakota reservation