Education

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March 15, 2012
More recently, a growing number of black families are also turning their backs on the public school system...
March 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - In recent months there have been a number of local news reports on parents taking the tough-love…
March 15, 2012
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A new study comparing the graduation rates of the men's and women's teams in this year's…
March 14, 2012
Alvin Aureliano Davis greets more than 400 students to his band program and music classroom every day with a smile…
March 12, 2012
A Florida dad is punishing his son for his poor grades on his report card...
March 12, 2012
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The graduation rate disparity between African-American and white players at schools in this year's men's NCAA…
March 5, 2012
theGRIO REPORT- Key black leaders are divided on the Obama administration's increased regulation of for-profit colleges, with some casting the…
February 29, 2012
OPINION - This is an issue that should be addressed every day of the year, not just during Black History…
February 28, 2012
Wayne State is located in America's largest black-majority city, yet is one of the nation's worst at getting degrees into…
February 28, 2012
OPINION - Rick Santorum says President Barack Obama is a 'snob,' who is encouraging young people to go to college…
February 27, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama Monday urged the nation's governors to invest more state resources in education, saying a…
February 23, 2012
VIDEO - A Bridgeport mother plead guilty, for enrolling her then 5 year old son in the wrong school district...
February 6, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Raised in the crime-ridden Woodlawn section of Chicago, Chandra Gill, Ph.D. uses her experiences to encourage youth…
February 2, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Rapper Ja Rule has been getting advice behind bars from two once high-powered men: ex-Tyco International…
January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Traci Lester is the executive director of Reach Out and Read's Greater New York branch, which works…
January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Bonita Carr, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Lighthouse Youth Center in Chicago's South Side neighborhood…
January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - John Hunter uses his World Peace Game to help students work to solve global issues...
January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Ten-year-old Karma Bridges, the daughter of famous rapper Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, is the CEO of Karma's World,…
January 30, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - LeVar Burton helped teach millions of children learn to read during Reading Rainbow's 23-season run, and now…
January 26, 2012
Legendary comedian Bill Cosby weighed in on education following President Obama's State of the Union speech...