Public School News

Oklahoma City schools want to stop hip-hop curriculum

By theGrio

3:14 PM on 10/04/2010

Known as Flocabulary, the program is a music-based educational tool that uses raps, rhythms and rhymes to help students learn...
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Where did all the black male teachers go?

By Leslie T. Fenwick

9:02 AM on 09/29/2010

OPINION - Clearly, the desire and aptitude to become a teacher exists among young black men. The question is whether the nation can undo the history that got us here...
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Schools without principals look to set new education standards (VIDEO)

By Todd Johnson

10:40 AM on 09/28/2010

theGRIO VIDEO - BRICK Academy, a public school in Newark, New Jersey, opened this fall under new leadership -- the teachers...
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Obama: Money alone cannot solve US school problems

By theGrio

12:14 PM on 09/27/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Bemoaning America's decreasing global educational competitiveness, President Barack Obama on Monday called for a longer school year...
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Facebook founder donates $100M to Newark schools

By theGrio

3:31 PM on 09/23/2010

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Newark Mayor Cory Booker, NJ Gov. Chris Christie and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are expected to announce the donation Friday on Oprah's show...
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Mass. black public school students top peers on SAT

By theGrio

10:43 AM on 09/13/2010

MALDEN, Mass. (AP) - Massachusetts education officials say the state's black public high school students are outperforming their SAT-taking peers nationwide...
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New Orleans charter schools redefine education reform (VIDEO)

By Todd Johnson

8:00 AM on 08/26/2010

theGRIO VIDEO - This fall, more then 70 percent of New Orleans public school students will attend charter schools...
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Barack Obama Elementary opens in Maryland

By theGrio

4:07 PM on 08/23/2010

WASHINGTON - The school is being touted as being an environmentally friendly "green" school...
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Report: Wayne State has big racial graduation gap

By theGrio

2:16 PM on 08/23/2010

DETROIT (AP) - Wayne State graduates fewer than one in 10 African-American students while success for their white counterparts is four times higher...
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How to save America's black students

By Geoffrey Canada

8:44 AM on 05/04/2010

OPINION - We cannot expect the status quo--which got us to this horrible place--to close the achievement gap and get this country's education system where it needs to be...
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Muslims turning to home schooling in increasing numbers

By theGrio

12:56 PM on 02/22/2010

From The Washington Post - Although three-quarters of the nation's estimated 2 million home-schoolers identify themselves as Christian, the number of Muslims is expanding "relatively quickly"...
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Obama seeks $1.35 billion more for schools to "Race to the Top"

By theGrio

4:35 PM on 01/19/2010

From The Baltimore Sun - WASHINGTON - President Obama, delivering a schoolhouse pitch for a $1.35-billion expansion of his signature educational plan, promised to "raise the bar'' for what public schools expect of students and teachers...
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Minorities see punishment gap in Colorado schools

By theGrio

2:21 PM on 01/05/2010

DENVER (AP) -- Black and Latino children in Colorado schools are more likely than whites to face harsh punishments such as suspension or expulsion...
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