Geoffrey Canada & The Harlem Children’s Zone

12:33 pm EST December 7th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

I love, love, love this kind of thing. We need this everywhere.

Harlem Children’s Zone Breaks Poverty Pattern

“What we’re doing is not some kind of brilliant, eureka moment that we had when we figured out how to do this,” Canada told host Neal Conan. “We have been talking about these issues, providing comprehensive, integrated services to poor children since I was in graduate school… So we just simply did it. We just decided that the time had come to actually put together all that the social scientists and the educators had been talking about for decades in approaching this problem.”

Geoffrey Canada (born January 13, 1952) is an African-American social activist and educator. Since 1990, Canada has been president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone in Harlem, New York, an organization whose goal is to increase high school and college graduation rates among students in Harlem.

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3 Responses to “Geoffrey Canada & The Harlem Children’s Zone”

  1. WhiteWhale says:
    December 7, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    Wow! I took a break from making lesson plans and this totally inspired me to work that much harder. Thanks for posting this Oliver. I will make sure to share it with my fellow teachers.

  2. jr says:
    December 7, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    Here’s a link if you want to donate http://www.hcz.org/donate/how-to-help

  3. WhiteWhale says:
    December 7, 2009 at 6:40 pm

    Thanks jr.:) I may just alot a christmas donation.