Education

All Articles

July 15, 2010
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut's black and Hispanic students continue to narrow the academic achievement gap with double-digit percentage improvements…
July 8, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - The Zone, which covers 97 square blocks of Harlem is a neighborhood legendary for black culture and…
July 8, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Mary J. Blige may have her sights on going back to school these days, but Howard University…
July 8, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The survey shows that children of all ages from low-income families, regardless of race, are at a…
June 30, 2010
OPINION - With the growth of the charter school movement since the 1990s to offer choice and accountability in public…
June 23, 2010
VIDEO - Practically everything at River Terrace Elementary in Washington, DC--to what the kids hear, what they eat and what…
June 22, 2010
OPINION - The overall failure of incentives to produce significant academic impact confirms that achievement is not solely informed by…
June 19, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - LaMar Queen, 26, is now known at Los Angeles Academy as the rap teacher, but his…
June 18, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - A majority of states saw their unemployment rates drop in May, but the widespread declines were mainly…
June 9, 2010
VIDEO - A senior with access to this year's yearbook reportedly changed the last name of a younger student, we've…
May 27, 2010
AP - According to a new report students at high poverty schools are more likely to be minorities...
May 27, 2010
Urban Prep Academy's announcement was met with skeptics, some of whom said that being accepted to college is not the…
May 25, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - A North Georgia teacher is on administrative leave and could lose her job after she allowed four…
May 24, 2010
VIDEO - "We are aggressively investigating this case, and if these allegations prove true, we will take the strongest possible…
May 22, 2010
Upcoming PBS documentary takes a look at one of the only all-black schools in the 1800s...
May 22, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas State Board of Education adopted a social studies and history curriculum that amends or…
May 21, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A hotly contested proposal to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade" was…
May 20, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Critics, including the president of the NAACP, a former U.S. education secretary and the committee that…
May 17, 2010
OPINION - The decades since Brown have given rise to a toxic mix of increased racial isolation in schools that…
May 17, 2010
VIDEO - Sheri Lynn Davis, the Houston teacher caught on tape beating a 13-year-old student, is now facing unemployment, criminal…