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First lady Michelle Obama delivers the commencement speech during the Bowie State University graduation ceremony at the Comcast Center on the campus of the University of Maryland May 17, 2013 in College Park, Maryland. Obama received and Honorary Doctor of Laws degree before addressing the 600 graduates of Maryland's oldest historically black university and one of the ten oldest in the country. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

President, first lady address HBCU graduates

Lilly Workneh
theGRIO SLIDESHOW - Graduation season is underway and students and their families are joined by a few special guests as they celebrate their achievement...
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Desperate need for Internet in our urban schools

Jamal Simmons
OPINION - Erasing the barriers to digitally enhanced learning for students in disadvantaged situations requires a multifaceted approach...
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MSNBC Host and Tulane University professor Melissa Harris Perry caused a stir on the right with a promo she made for the cable network, in which she talked about the importance of community to the raising of children. Critics pounced, but MHP stood her ground. In addition to being a cable television host, author and professor, Perry is also a wife and the mother of a young daughter. (Photo courtesy of MSNBC)

Melissa Harris-Perry fights back

Lilly Workneh
VIDEO - In the 30-second commercial, the talk show host shares her thoughts on why caring for children is not only a job for parents but also a responsibility that requires more accountability and effort from communities...
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In this March 28, 2013 photo, Ginnette Powell, left, and her friend Jonnelle Seigler, both of Boston, fist bump during a chance meeting in front of the UP Academy Charter School in Boston's South Boston neighborhood. Powell was bussed to the predominantly white neighborhood almost 40 years ago to attend school at what was Patrick Gavin Middle School. She said will never forget riding the school bus as protesters hurled bricks at it. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Amid Boston school changes, giving voice to busing's past

Bridget Murphy, Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) - The uproar started in 1974, when a federal judge imposed busing after a lawsuit claimed black students were getting lower-quality education than children who attended mostly white schools.
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Beverly Hall, Atlanta superintendent of public schools, smiles after she was named the 2009 Superintendent of the Year at the American Association of School Administrators' National Conference on Education in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 20, 2009. Hall has led the 102-school Atlanta, Georgia system serving 50,000 for a decade. Hall will get a $10,000 college scholarship to give to a student at her high school alma mater in Jamaica. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Atlanta school cheating robs innocent children

Goldie Taylor
OPINION - The Atlanta cheating scandal is about real life, a real 'wire' -- real children and all too real consequences...
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Atlanta cheating scandal deepens as educators turn themselves in

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - The 35 defendants, including Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Beverly Hall, have a mandatory deadline to surrender at the Fulton County Jail by Tuesday...
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Students march through the Loop protesting the city's plan to close more than 50 elementary schools on March 25, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Last week the city announced the plan claiming it was necessary to rein in a looming $1 billion budget deficit. The closings would shift about 30,000 students to new schools and leave more than 1,000 teachers with uncertain futures. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Chicago Teachers Union, supporters gear up for rally on school closings

Renita D. Young
theGRIO REPORT - As students of the third-largest school district in the nation enter their second day of spring break, many of them are spending their vacation protesting the proposed closing of 54 Chicago public schools...
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Bill Cosby

Cosby wants 'movement' for schools

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - At 75, the comedian, philanthropist, actor and everyone's favorite dad as co-creator and star of 'The Cosby Show,' is still feisty, opinionated, and determined. Only now, his energy is often devoted to touting causes that have nothing to do with show business...
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Students at P.S. 38 in Boerum Hill are layering beats and manipulating sounds.  (Courtesy NBC New York)

Brooklyn elementary school offers digital music production class

Mathew R. Warren, NBC New York
NBC New York - A new after school program at a Brooklyn elementary school is taking a modern approach to teaching children about music.
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(Photo courtesy of NBC Southern California.)

Sheriff seeks to replace jail cells with classrooms

Patrick Healy, NBC Southern California
NBC Southern California - The gutting of Men's Central Jail cells to be replaced with inmate classrooms is one element of a dramatic re-envisioning of the Los Angeles County jail system as proposed by Sheriff Lee Baca.
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