I want to follow up on my previous post “It Takes a Village” in which I first mentioned the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ.) NAZ is a local collaboration of schools, organizations and institutions modeling their efforts after Geoffrey Canada and the Harlem Children’s Zone . They aim to align their resources and efforts to serve [...]
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While it seems that the Fargo floods have lost their place in the headlines, there is still a great deal of work being done around recovery and clean-up in the community. Below you will see a post from Greg Tehven, co-founder of Students Today Leaders Forever (STLF), who shares his personal ties to the Fargo [...]
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Living in the Twin Cities for the last six years has led me to believe
that most people identify my home community of Fargo in one way or
another as “like that movie”. Well there might be some parallels, but
the recent historic floods have shown the world what it means to help
our neighbors and work together.
When I [...]
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New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a timely article on Harlem Children’s Zone. Brooks discusses a recent assessment of HCZ’s charter school, Promise Academy, which show stunning success rates.
He says, “Forgive some academic jargon, but the most common education reform ideas — reducing class size, raising teacher pay, enrolling kids in Head Start — [...]
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“In my shop, if a child does not succeed, it means the adults around him or her have failed.”
Those are the words of Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone.
Among the leading social entrepreneurs of our time, Geoffrey Canada has taken Harlem Children’s Zone from a one block pilot program in 1990 [...]
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Watch Geoffrey Canada talk about generational poverty on the Colbert Report.
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Do you remember Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Did you explore the Oregon Trail? I grew up getting to spend an hour or a periodic class period in my school’s computer lab getting to play these educational games. Our first home computer was a Commodore 64 and I took keyboarding in middle school [...]
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KARE 11 interviewed Dr. Mae Jemison while she was in town for Minnesota Meeting. Here is her video interview.
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On Wednesday, April 22nd, Former NASA astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison addressed a crowd of nearly 800 people at the most recent Minnesota Meeting. Dr. Jemison said Minnesota needs to develop a “science literate society” to ensure its economic competitiveness in the future. She said all students have “a world filled with ideas and possibilities before [...]
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