Groups providing education and training for high school dropouts say the city’s new rules for spending millions in Workforce Investment dollars won’t achieve the best outcomes.
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…
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…
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