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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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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