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November 9, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Last spring, 8,000 teachers, firefighters, police officers, and others unionized Ohio workers crowded into the state capital…
September 28, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - For U.S. schools with a large African-American and Latino population, the teachers are drastically short-changed, according to…
August 10, 2011
NEWS ONE - While I teached a bunch of young school children in the South Bronx, what I learned most…
July 19, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Educators are accused of giving students inappropriate help and, in some cases, of changing students' answers --…
July 15, 2011
WASHINGTON - D.C. Public Schools let go of hundreds of teachers today, as part of the policy introduced by former…
July 5, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - In a statement, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel says Obama and the union share a vision and…
June 3, 2011
OPINION - What if we moved from the fun and scandalous, and actually used Twitter to do something useful?
May 17, 2011
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Four white Philadelphia teachers charge in federal race-bias lawsuits that a black principal suggested they were unfit…
March 9, 2011
DALLAS - North Dallas High School seniors held a vigil Tuesday night in support of their teachers, whose jobs may…
March 2, 2011
TELEMUNDO - Arne Duncan believes that these figures could be key in figuring out the reasons behind the high drop-out…
February 3, 2011
TheGrios 100 - Jones nearly drowned at a water park when he was 5. Less than 20 years after his…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Fed up with the troubled bureaucracy of inner-city schools, 25-year-old Teach for America alumnus Dominique Lee decided…
January 31, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - "Everybody can't be a business major," Lee told the auditorium packed with male high school and college…
December 3, 2010
OPINION - According to the study, the African American high school students have a 62 percent graduation rate, behind every…
November 4, 2010
VIDEO - Last week a student posted video to YouTube.com that allegedly shows a fight between a teacher and student...
October 19, 2010
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The Tucson Unified School District program offers specialized courses in African-American, Mexican-American and Native-American studies...
August 10, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The aid for the states is to be paid for mostly by closing a tax loophole used…
August 10, 2010
OPINION - We need to get rid of the system that protects bad teachers and makes it impossible to reward…
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…