Students in the Harlem Children's Zone achieve the results they do, Canada says, because they invest more: They invest more actual time in the classroom, with a far longer school…
A 10th-grade global studies class. The Children's Zone's ultimate goal is to get as many of Harlem's youth through college as possible. The Promise Academies have yet to graduate a…
Clear lines of accountability for student discipline are needed in the era of police officers staffing public school hallways, say advocates and officials pushing for new rules.
Efforts to raise the achievement of students of color, and increase their admissions into the city’s competitive high schools, have seen limited success.