How early should kids be enrolled in school?
MSNBC is covering issues surrounding early education this week as a lead up to Sunday's two hour special _A Stronger America: Making the Grade_...
New study says 'Elmo' helps kids learn
MSNBC is focusing on education this week, a focus that will end with a two hour special called _A Stronger America: Making the Grade_ which airs this coming Sunday.
Judge: Memphis school merger with county legal
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge has ruled that the merger between Memphis City Schools and its surrounding county school district is legal...
Mayor Corey Booker on No Child Left Behind
No Child Left Behind is stalled in Congress - leaving the administration to take the matter into their hands. The administration announced new waivers to make changes...
Ed. Secretary: States to get school test waivers
(AP) - Arne Duncan says he will announce a new waiver system Monday to give schools a break from student testing mandate in the federal No Child Left Behind law...
NYC to spend $127M on minority programs for men
NEW YORK (AP) - Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg will kick in $30 million from his foundation and hedge fund manager George Soros will match that amount
Billionaires' investment in young black men inspires
OPINION - New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the billionaire financier George Soros have teamed up to aid African-American and Latino youth, is a testament to hope and goodwill...
Banks in schools allow teens to cash in on financial literacy
VIDEO - According to some studies, fewer than half of all high school seniors can pass a basic financial literacy course. That number drops to below 30 percent...
UDC proposes monument, scholarship for black Army hero
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The University of the District of Columbia moved Tuesday to study the cost of erecting a monument to honor Col. Charles Young -- a pioneering Black military leader...
Man who posed as Texas student gets prison
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Guerdwich Montimere, 23, a former Haitian star athlete who posed as a teenager to play high school basketball in Texas was sentenced to three years in prison...
