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    “What Is Your Hope?”

      At the beginning of the school year, one Parkway middle school asked students and teachers to write down their hopes for the year on a chalkboard at the front door. A video tape of the project went viral, with more than three million views. Now, Paul Schankman goes back to the school to find out if their hopes came true.

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