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January 10, 2012
NORCROSS, Georgia (AP) = Suburban Atlanta school officials are deciding whether to discipline teachers who gave third-grade students math homework…
January 8, 2012
theGRIO REPORT- Merely a decade ago, the No Child Left Behind Act inspired the country to provide the best education…
January 8, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Parents in one Georgia school are demanding an apology after a third grade math class used images…
January 6, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Recent numbers from the New York City Police Department show that an average of one student per…
December 27, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - According to the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit, nearly six out of ten children in Detroit will never…
December 23, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - New research indicates that fewer Americans are getting married than ever. Although for African-American women the marriage…
December 8, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Jay-Z didn't graduate from high school, but he's encouraging others to value their education...
December 8, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - A 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress study has found Washington, D.C. public schools have the largest…
December 8, 2011
theGRIO Q&A - In a partnership with his 10 year- old daughter Karma, Ludacris has created Karmasworld, an educational website…
November 30, 2011
HENLEY-ON-KLIP, South Africa (AP) - Winfrey spent $40 million to give her girls a campus with computer and science labs,…
November 23, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Ironically, black women are earning more college degrees their male counterparts, but have not been able to…
November 20, 2011
OPINION - Across the country, the achievement gap between white students and black students persists...
November 4, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - At the third annual 'I Will Graduate Day' presented this year in New York by Entertainers for…
October 28, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The 2011-2012 Detroit Public School year started on Sept. 6, with thousands of homes and streets all…
October 28, 2011
LOS ANGELES - The kids at Mary McLeod Bethune Middle School had quite the pep rally today...
October 25, 2011
VIDEO - Details about the new sex education curriculum in New York City public schools are out and some are…
October 24, 2011
(AP) - The answer turns out to be a complex equation of self-doubt, stereotypes, discouragement and economics -- and sometimes…
October 20, 2011
OPINION - Dr. Roselyn Aker-Black, psychologist and CEO of Til Death Foundation in Washington, DC, says black youth has always…
October 15, 2011
OPINION - My daughters donʼt play lacrosse, but hereʼs why yours should...
October 14, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Hip-hop has become more than rap music and videos, it has become a culture; a way of…