Minority students disproportionately arrested in NYC public schools
NEW YORK - Ninety-five percent of arrests made in New York City public schools in the last school year were of black or Latino students...
Home schooling: Why more black US families are trying it
More recently, a growing number of black families are also turning their backs on the public school system...
Mass. black public school students top peers on SAT
MALDEN, Mass. (AP) - Massachusetts education officials say the state's black public high school students are outperforming their SAT-taking peers nationwide...
New Orleans charter schools redefine education reform (VIDEO)
theGRIO VIDEO - This fall, more then 70 percent of New Orleans public school students will attend charter schools...
Barack Obama Elementary opens in Maryland
WASHINGTON - The school is being touted as being an environmentally friendly "green" school...
Report: Wayne State has big racial graduation gap
DETROIT (AP) - Wayne State graduates fewer than one in 10 African-American students while success for their white counterparts is four times higher...
How to save America's black students
OPINION - We cannot expect the status quo--which got us to this horrible place--to close the achievement gap and get this country's education system where it needs to be...
Muslims turning to home schooling in increasing numbers
From The Washington Post - Although three-quarters of the nation's estimated 2 million home-schoolers identify themselves as Christian, the number of Muslims is expanding "relatively quickly"...
Obama seeks $1.35 billion more for schools to "Race to the Top"
From The Baltimore Sun - WASHINGTON - President Obama, delivering a schoolhouse pitch for a $1.35-billion expansion of his signature educational plan, promised to "raise the bar'' for what public schools expect of students and teachers...
Minorities see punishment gap in Colorado schools
DENVER (AP) -- Black and Latino children in Colorado schools are more likely than whites to face harsh punishments such as suspension or expulsion...
