Urban Prep provides blueprint for blacks seeking higher ed
OPINION - Our focus on math, science, and a double-period each year of English, equips students with the essential knowledge which higher learning is based upon...
DC's Seed School sprouts students driven to succeed
VIDEO - Most students entering the Seed School do so three grades below grade level. Upon entry, students are set up in dormitories during the week and allowed to spend weekends at home...
Detroit school issues deeper than education
From TheGRIO -- Just 3 percent of Detroit's fourth graders and 4 percent of eighth graders meet national math standards. The often-disputed high school graduation rate was as low as 25 percent in 2007, by far the worst in the country...
It's Blackademic: young and black in academia
OPINION - A YourBlackWorld.com study reports that 42 percent of all African-Americans at predominantly white college campuses never had a single black professor during four years of college...
'World of Money' teaches dollars and sense to youth
theGRIO REPORT - Programs like the World of Money are helping to fill that void and are providing young people with the tools they will need to secure a better financial future...
MSNBC to present second annual 'Making the Grade' special
MSNBC will air "A Stronger America: Making the Grade," a live two-hour discussion on strengthening America through education, from the Detroit School of Arts, on Sunday, August 14 from noon until 2pm ET...
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.
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...
Charters are the right recipe for failing schools
OPINION - The American record in getting kids, especially kids of color, the preschool-through-high school education they need to go to college and graduate is a dismal one...
