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Entire teaching staff fired at underperforming US school
2:02 PM on 02/24/2010
VIDEO - Tthe Central Falls School Committee voted Tuesday evening to fire every educator at Central Falls High School at the end of the school year...
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TheGrio's 100: Tony Hansberry, whiz-kid considered 'the next Charles Drew'
12:00 PM on 02/03/2010
TheGrio's 100 - People in his Jacksonville, Florida home are calling him the "next Charles Drew"...
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TheGrio's 100: John Jackson, bridging education's racial divide
5:00 AM on 02/01/2010
TheGrio's 100 - John Jackson was twelve years old when he moved from Chicago to the suburbs and saw a difference not only in his environment, but in his education...
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From student to homeless in seconds - a survivor's story
5:02 PM on 01/18/2010
VIDEO - This economics major went from a classroom to a one-room tent--literally overnight.
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Hampton University awarded $1.4M to recruit students
7:06 AM on 12/30/2009
HAMPTON -- The National Science Foundation is giving Hampton University $1.4 million to recruit more minority students into the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics...
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NCAA's educational mission is great scam of 21st century
9:41 AM on 12/21/2009
OPINION - For the NCAA, the educational mission of their professional sports league is one of the great scams of the 20th and 21st centuries, no different from the Ponzi schemes of Bernie Madoff...
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School should be a place for learning, not a battleground
8:12 AM on 12/16/2009
OPINION - During the civil rights movement, black students required military escorts just to go to school. Back then, the issue was school desegregation. Today, the issue is school safety and the threat of student violence.
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Africans find unlikely education at Ukraine universities
7:11 AM on 12/14/2009
OPINION - Ukraine is not the first country that comes to mind for many African students wanting to study abroad, but the history of Africans studying in Ukraine and other former Soviet countries dates back to as early as the 1920s...
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Lincoln University shouldn't throw its weight around
8:00 AM on 11/24/2009
OPINION - Predicating students' (most of them black) educational achievement on bodily appearance threatens to undo many of the positive coping skills that blacks (women in particular) have developed in order to maintain positive mental health.
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7-year-old boy dragged by school bus
11:24 AM on 10/30/2009
VIDEO - Seven-year old Chisano Mutts is lucky to be alive after he was dragged nearly a block by his school bus...
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Students accuse Chicago bar of racial discrimination
12:33 PM on 10/28/2009
Students from Washington University in St. Louis raised civil rights complaints against a popular Chicago nightclub.
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Racist fliers cause football team to throw in its jerseys
8:21 AM on 10/28/2009
VIDEO - Players on a Michigan high school football team have thrown in their jerseys - literally - after an assistant coach allegedly posted fliers in the team's locker room that contained racial slurs...
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Student sleuths crack cold case
11:30 AM on 10/22/2009
VIDEO - A Texas prosecutor says two men convicted of capital murder in Dallas County 12 years ago are expected to be released from prison this week...
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In Chicago, some blame turf wars for violence
11:17 AM on 10/19/2009
VIDEO - As suspects in the beating death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert appear in court Monday, experts continue to question the cause for violence...
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Some seek high tech solutions for education
9:27 AM on 10/14/2009
VIDEO - In an age where technology is so much a part of our lives, many say the U.S. education system still lags in advancements...
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Detroit school sends kids home due to lack of teachers
11:48 AM on 10/13/2009
VIDEO - Nearly 60 children went to Detroit's McFarlane Elementary school Monday morning, only to be sent home because there were not enough teachers...
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KIPP schools raise the bar
8:27 AM on 10/06/2009
VIDEO - The 'Knowledge is Power Program,' KIPP for short, serves 20,000 K through 12th grade students in 82 public charter schools in 19 states and the District of Columbia.
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HIV/AIDS patients burdened by emotional baggage of shame
10:06 AM on 09/24/2009
VIDEO - Nearly half of the HIV patients in America are African-American, and many are familiar with the shameful stigma that comes with the disease.
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Leave banks out of student loans; give students the bailout
7:10 AM on 09/22/2009
OPINION - Access to higher education should not be for just the privileged, it should be affordable and available to all who strive for it...
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Obama talks to students about growing up with divorced parents
9:08 AM on 09/09/2009
VIDEO -- Tuesday, President Obama responded to a question about growing up with divorced parents from a child whose parents have divorced as well. The president said the experienced would ultimately make them...
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