Philly teens redefine their education
VIDEO - Philadelphia students redefined themselves - no longer accepting the term dropout by referring to themselves as push-outs...
NAACP wages civil war over charter schools
OPINION - The latest frontline of the public school vs. charter school battlefield is happening in the most famous African-American neighborhood in the United States, Harlem, New York...
How we can tweet for education
OPINION - What if we moved from the fun and scandalous, and actually used Twitter to do something useful?
New law could benefit homeless, poor students
CONNECTICUT - For homeless families the prospect of school registration is daunting as many states require all students have a valid home address...
Whites believe they are victims of racism more often than blacks
The findings, say the authors, show that America has not achieved the "post-racial" society that some predicted in the wake of Barack Obama's election...
Slim school options push parents over the edge
theGRIO VIDEO - Wayne McKenzie, father of three boys, sent his children to private school because he wasn't satisfied with the public school options in his Brooklyn neighborhood...
Families take a chance on charter schools
OPINION - It seems unlikely that the 5,000 public charter schools with 1.7 million students are about to become the norm for the nation's 50 million public school children...
Too many black dads absent in education
OPINION - It's time for us to get off of our collective butts and sit with our children and start being intimate with the educational process...
Pa. lawsuit: Whites told they can't teach blacks
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Four white Philadelphia teachers charge in federal race-bias lawsuits that a black principal suggested they were unfit to teach black students...
Denzel Washington receives honorary Penn degree
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Denzel Washington confessed to a bit of stage fright in his latest role: Commencement speaker at the University of Pennsylvania...
