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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...
January 26, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Obama called for requiring anyone who has not…
January 24, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - President Obama outlined a number of new proposals, specifically on the economy. Here's a look at a…
January 20, 2012
Tech expert Seth Owusu is giving back to his native country of Ghana an extraordinary way...
January 20, 2012
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - The suburban Atlanta teacher who resigned after an investigation found students were given math homework with…
January 20, 2012
My grandmother, Inez Starr, could neither read nor write...
January 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - For the second time this month, a highly controversial homework assignment involving slavery has led to stunned…
January 18, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A Duke University study that explores the performance of "low performing" black students has set off a…
January 13, 2012
Crispus Attucks is buried alongside the other massacre victims at the historic Granary Burying Ground where some of America's most…
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…