This Week In #Education: Reform: A Rough Initiation For The Harlem Children's Zone

This Week In Education: Reform: A Rough Initiation For The Harlem Children's Zone

Reform: A Rough Initiation For The Harlem Children's Zone

by Alexander Russo

This was the week that the Harlem Children's Zone got initiated. Until now, the Zone had either gotten glowing press (the vast majority of the time) or simply ignored the negative (the City Limits article and a few other items). Jay Mathews' columnset it off -- no one would have noticed the Brookings report without Jay's weighing in to defend the Zone model. Then the rest of us piled on, and Canada's response -- making some good points along with