On standardized tests in 2009, the Harlem Children's Zone's Promise Academy I fared well compared to most other schools in its upper Manhattan district (District 5), and rivaled city- and…
Rather than play a high-stakes game around the U.S. Census in March, immigration activists in New York are poised to play a crucial role in the federal debate on immigration…
The HCZ model might not work in every depressed urban center. But something else might work in those cities—or might already be working, albeit outside the media spotlight or the…
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…
THE MAN OF THE HOURWe will find the money to do this because we can't afford not to.Geoffrey Canada strides to the lectern in the New York Sheraton's Grand Metropolitan…
The ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ plan has the policy world abuzz about the first major federal antipoverty effort in decades. But the effort has not yet been launched, and details are hard…
