Are black home-schooled students making the grade?
theGRIO REPORT - A new research effort aims to find out how African-American home-schoolers stack up academically against students in traditional schools...
Why Black Studies can't be dismissed as 'claptrap'
OPINION - The all-too-familiar dismissive tone and the requisite squabbles that accompany these attacks are normal fare for what constitute academic discourses in the modern era...
Education blogger fired, called Black Studies 'claptrap'
Naomi Schaefer Riley, blogger for 'The Chronicle of Higher Education', recently parted ways with the site after outrage over an article she wrote last week titled...
'Street squash' lifts grades, spirits in Harlem
VIDEO - Students in Harlem learn how to play squash and improve their grades through the Street Squash after school program. NBC's Janelle Richards reports...
Rhee on education as path to American Dream
theGRIO Q&A - Now the founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, Michelle Rhee is using her years of expertise to advise state governments on best practices -- and influence education policy...
Campus diversity suffers under race-blind policies
BERKELEY, California (AP) - Fifteen years ago, California voters were asked: Should colleges consider a student's race when they decide who gets in and who doesn't?
Urban Prep grads all college-bound again
Chicago's Urban Prep Academy will continue it's remarkable run this year, as its entire all-male, All-African-American class of graduates have been accepted to college for the third straight year in a row...
First lady to speak at 3 college graduations
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michelle Obama will speak at three college graduation ceremonies this spring, including two in key general election battleground states...
Audit finds trouble at black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha
WASHINGTON (AP) - A financial audit of the nation's oldest black sorority found significant accounting problems including a secret set of books used by top officials to divert money...
Co-workers accuse black superintendent of racism
Nine employees of the Tukwila School District have filed complaints of racial discrimination against their superintendent, Ethelda Burke...
