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May 29, 2012
ATLANTA (AP) - Another eight states are gaining flexibility from the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, U.S. Education Secretary…
May 24, 2012
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Mitt Romney struggled to find support for his education proposals while campaigning at an inner-city school Thursday,…
May 22, 2012
The Sunlight Foundation has released a report stating that members of Congress are speaking at a 10th grade level...
May 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A new research effort aims to find out how African-American home-schoolers stack up academically against students in…
May 11, 2012
Brian Martinez has created an online platform that gives schools and teachers something they cannot find anywhere else...
May 10, 2012
OPINION - The all-too-familiar dismissive tone and the requisite squabbles that accompany these attacks are normal fare for what constitute…
May 9, 2012
(AP) - Major League Baseball would fund scholarships and exert greater influence over Division I college baseball under what would…
May 9, 2012
Naomi Schaefer Riley, blogger for 'The Chronicle of Higher Education', recently parted ways with the site after outrage over an…
May 4, 2012
SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil's top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across…
April 30, 2012
Fifth-grade students at P.S. 36 are bettering their communication skills and decision-making by becoming life-size pieces in a chess game...
April 25, 2012
VIDEO - Students in Harlem learn how to play squash and improve their grades through the Street Squash after school…
April 25, 2012
theGRIO Q&A - Now the founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, Michelle Rhee is using her years of expertise to advise…
April 24, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - An estimated 1.5 million black students could see their student loans increase unless Congress and President Obama…
April 23, 2012
BERKELEY, California (AP) - Fifteen years ago, California voters were asked: Should colleges consider a student's race when they decide…
April 18, 2012
(AP) - In Milledgeville, Ga., a city of 18,000 some 90 miles from Atlanta, Salecia Johnson was accused of tearing…
April 5, 2012
OPINION - For all intents and purposes, affirmative action is dead.
March 30, 2012
Chicago's Urban Prep Academy will continue it's remarkable run this year, as its entire all-male, All-African-American class of graduates have…
March 29, 2012
Students at an all boy high school walked out of classes to protest the lack of education.
March 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - As the NCAA pushes for tougher academic standards, students will struggle to strike a balance between the…
March 15, 2012
BLACK ENTERPISE - Kimberly C. Ellis joined twitter in 2009 but she didn't understand its influence in the black community…