Education

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August 28, 2010
OPINION - This blatant attempt to preserve segregation was an institutionalized assertion of a mythical white superiority...
August 27, 2010
(AP) - By targeting local students in financial need, Northwestern is seeking to boost minority enrollment...
August 25, 2010
HADDONFIELD, N.J (AP) - Now Democrats are teeing off on Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, for the problem...
August 25, 2010
OPINION - We believe federal investment in these kinds of programs could result in 18,000 additional college graduates a year…
August 24, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - The aim of the historic program is to reward ambitious changes to improve schools and close the…
August 23, 2010
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Produced and voiced by Nigerians, the show aims to focus on challenges in a country where…
August 17, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Calling it a "national crisis," a recent report found that less than half of black males graduated…
August 17, 2010
OPINION - When the equity agenda is elevated and achieved in education, the more likely it is that black males,…
August 16, 2010
The 2010 state results, released last month, came as a blow to the legacy of the mayor and the chancellor,…
August 13, 2010
OPINION - Your zip code and your income may determine where you live...but they shouldn't determine your child's future...
August 12, 2010
VIDEO - The concept of this single-sex focused school for young women was met with criticism in the beginning. However,…
August 11, 2010
OPINION - Education is the pathway out of poverty. For too long poverty has perpetuated ignorance, which feeds discrimination and…
August 10, 2010
OPINION - We need to get rid of the system that protects bad teachers and makes it impossible to reward…
August 6, 2010
RIALTO, Calif. (AP) - Dan Schruender, a past president of the California chapter of Aryan Nations, filed nomination papers Monday…
August 5, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Legislation long sought by Democrats to save the jobs of up to 300,000 teachers, police and other…
August 3, 2010
DALLAS (AP) - The Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday that two out of three Texas teachers in the past school…
July 29, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama said the goal isn't to fire or admonish teachers but to create a culture of…
July 23, 2010
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - In the historical epicenter of slavery, a professor thinks he may have found the nation's oldest…
July 22, 2010
OPINION - As a nation, we should remember that racial discrimination, in the form of separate and unequal education, is…
July 21, 2010
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) - Protesters and police scuffled over claims that a new busing system would resegregate schools...