Education

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October 28, 2010
OPINION - Today as in times past, HBCUs give the best and the brightest an education which can catapult them…
October 20, 2010
BALTIMORE (AP) - Over the last three years, black males have improved their graduation rate and decreased their dropout rate…
October 20, 2010
(AP) - Overall, post-secondary educational achievement has flat-lined, meaning today's young adults are no better educated than the baby-boomer generation,…
October 19, 2010
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - "The 400,000 or 500,000 African-Americans in the Delta need a place to go to school where…
October 19, 2010
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The Tucson Unified School District program offers specialized courses in African-American, Mexican-American and Native-American studies...
October 18, 2010
For seven years, the gleaming silver letters that once proclaimed Michael Jackson Auditorium at Gardner Street Elementary School in Hollywood…
October 14, 2010
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The young men and women arrived in a chartered jet late Wednesday and were given T-shirts…
September 15, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Jim Greer's repudiation of his 2009 comments and his charges of racism seem as self-serving as his…
September 14, 2010
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER - Sharpton will unveil his 30-minute show, "Education Superhighway," Thursday morning at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 40th…
September 14, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama will make that point Tuesday at a Philadelphia school when he delivers his second back-to-school pep…
September 13, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - "We have to do more, we have to go farther, and we need your help to lead…
September 13, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - He's pushing for $850 million in federal spending on the educational institutions over 10 years...
September 13, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Adrian Fenty is fighting for his political life in Tuesday's primary election, fending off accusations that he…
September 13, 2010
MALDEN, Mass. (AP) - Massachusetts education officials say the state's black public high school students are outperforming their SAT-taking peers…
September 10, 2010
OPINION - Much more than empty promises of equal opportunity are needed to ensure an end to the persistent human…
September 10, 2010
Upon closer examination -- and as with generations past -- one will discover that young African-American women are continuing to…
September 9, 2010
VIDEO - Williams went back to visit a school he built, where he handed out basic school supplies because most…
September 9, 2010
SLIDESHOW - I'll remember a place full of natural beauty, the ocean, the mountains, the clear night skies....
September 6, 2010
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) - Almost all the attackers were black -- but few believe the violence was due to racial…
August 30, 2010
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Michael Jordan and his Bobcats NBA team will donate $250,000 to middle-school athletics programs in Charlotte,…