The Education Report Promise Neighborhoods: “Hope or Hype?”

The Education Report

Promise Neighborhoods: “Hope or Hype?”

By Katy Murphy
Thursday, February 18th, 2010 at 2:33 pm in achievement gap, families, initiatives,students
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Superintendent Tony Smith has talked about creating in Oakland what Geoffrey Canada has built in Harlem: a pipeline for kids “from cradle to college.”

The Harlem Children’s Zone has received no shortage of attention, even from the likes of President Obama and Prince Charles (shown here during a visit in 2007). But is enough data in on this ambitious, costly effort? And can it be successful in other places with the help of a federal start-up grant?

Those are issues that reporter Helen Zelon explores in “Hope or Hype in Harlem?” a thoughtful, in-depth report published in the City Limits magazine.

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