Obama gives back-to-school interview to kids
WASHINGTON - The two 10-year-olds sat down with President Obama in the White House for an exclusive back-to-school interview set up by the Scholastic Kids Press Corps...
Charges lessened in Ohio school fake-address case
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Williams-Bolar, of Akron, served nine days in jail earlier this year for falsifying information on records that she used to send her daughters to Copley-Fairlawn schools...
Back to school: What's wrong with US education?
OPINION - As millions of young people return back to school this year, we are still faced with the elephant in the room, What's Wrong with Education?
B-average black students to get shot at Yale for free
VIDEO - They must also have a 90 percent attendance rate, a record of good behavior and at least 40 hours of community service...
The case for school vouchers
What would happen to learning if children stopped being assigned to schools based on where they live or how much their family earns? My contention, which is supported by evidence and common sense, is that education would dramatically improve...
The trouble with school vouchers
The problem with using vouchers as a means to expand access to quality schools for poor children is that it is based on the premise that parents are the one's who do the choosing...
Are schools suffering from a black brain drain?
theGRIO REPORT - There are several important stories that are often omitted during comparisons between immigrant Africans and their U.S. born African-American counterparts...
Dean of Columbia College resigns after two years
Michele M. Moody-Adams, the first female and the first black dean of the college...
Education as the next civil rights movement
OPINION - Our ancestors were beaten, maimed and killed during slavery, when it was illegal to teach a slave to read. That this is now our reality is shameful...
Bullying victims see lower GPAs, particularly high achieving blacks, Latinos
The study shows that students who reported being bullied in the 10th grade saw a slight decrease in GPA by 12th grade...
