Education

Who is Madison Crowell? High school senior high GPA
High school senior Madison Crowell, who has a 3.85 GPA, will attend North Carolina's High Point University, which has a…
/ May 20, 2024
American schools are more racially diverse today, but schools have been re-segregating, with lasting academic consequences.
/ May 19, 2024
President Joe Biden is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday, a key opportunity for an election-year appearance.
/ May 19, 2024
Ralph Kennedy Frasier, the final surviving member of a group to desegregate North Carolina’s flagship university in the 1950s, has…
/ May 18, 2024
Demonstrators picket in front of a school board office protesting segregation
After 70 years, enough time has passed to learn the unwhitewashed history of the Supreme Court's landmark desegregation case.
/ May 17, 2024
We have made tremendous strides over the past 70 years. But our nation finds itself at another crossroads.
/ May 17, 2024
Brick school building in Virginia
The Shenandoah County, Va., school board decided that the best way to address racism is to honor it with confederate…
/ May 16, 2024
Is Rutgers a good school for social work?
Congratulations are in order for one mother-daughter duo who recently graduated from Rutgers of Social Work.
/ May 16, 2024
Dorothy Jean Tillman II, Black teen college graduates, graduation season, Black doctorate candidates, theGrio.com
Dorothy Jean Tillman II becomes the youngest to receive a doctoral degree in integrated behavioral health.
/ May 15, 2024
A small child and a woman, each holding a block, smile at each other
The D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed budget cuts to child care programs are harmful to our children and child care…
/ May 13, 2024
A federal judge has ruled Arkansas cannot prevent two high school teachers from discussing critical race theory in the classroom.
/ May 11, 2024
Harris' surprise video, which has debuted at a handful of commencement ceremonies, will appear at about half of all U.S.…
/ May 10, 2024