Education

All Articles

May 29, 2011
OPINION - Instead of solely spouting more statistics on the disparities, we aim to teach you about each disease and…
May 19, 2011
OPINION - It seems unlikely that the 5,000 public charter schools with 1.7 million students are about to become the…
May 18, 2011
OPINION - It's time for us to get off of our collective butts and sit with our children and start…
May 17, 2011
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Four white Philadelphia teachers charge in federal race-bias lawsuits that a black principal suggested they were unfit…
May 13, 2011
theGRIO VIDEO - Before the earthquake, child servants lived and worked in Port-au-Prince's homes. Today, many, like Rose Manette, serve…
May 13, 2011
We don't know whether former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is running for president, but he is getting into education...
May 11, 2011
NORWALK, Conn. (AP) - She is charged with felony larceny for allegedly using her baby sitter's address to enroll her…
May 10, 2011
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - McDowell and Williams-Bolar are low-income black single mothers, a fact that disturbs civil rights activists who…
May 10, 2011
"Apparently he doesn't like educated African-Americans very much," Kevin Allen, a final four contestant on the series' second season, said…
May 10, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - While a handful of detractors call these ceremonies discriminatory, a large number of students and professors laud…
May 6, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Private employers shrugged off high gas prices and created 268,000 jobs -- the most since February 2006...
May 3, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A public school district in Mississippi and the federal government are divided over whether the schools…
May 2, 2011
OPINION - I have never met Kelley Williams or Tanya MacDowell. I know their stories not only because I read…
April 28, 2011
OPINION - We cannot grow stronger, richer and faster as a nation if we continue on this course of hate…
April 27, 2011
NORWALK, Conn.(AP) - Tanya McDowell was arrested April 14 on felony charges of committing and attempting to commit first-degree larceny...
April 27, 2011
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Eye-level watermarks, gutted buildings and rows of mobile classrooms linger as reminders of the flooding from…
April 23, 2011
OPINION - The United Negro College Fund and its Building Green at Minority Serving Institutions program shows that minority colleges…
April 21, 2011
OPINION - The irony is that the multicultural inclusiveness that is desired by colleges and universities is the same thing…
April 20, 2011
The charity named for the rapper Kanye West that was intended to reduce high school dropout rates has closed mysteriously...
April 18, 2011
VIDEO - Nationwide studies show that only 33 percent of 4th graders are proficient or better at reading. 22 percent…