Latest News and Comment from Education

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Canada’s Legend-ary TED Talk Lie | Gary Rubinstein's Blog

Canada’s Legend-ary TED Talk Lie | Gary Rubinstein's Blog:


Canada’s Legend-ary TED Talk Lie

Geoffrey Canada recently did a TED talk entitled ‘Our failing schools.  Enough is enough.’  Canada is the president and CEO of The Harlem Children’s Zone and star of ‘Waiting For Superman.’

Popout
The premise of Harlem Children’s Zone is a good one.  It serves to provide school and complete wrap-around services (health, mental health, nutrition, etc.) to kids from Harlem beginning at birth and supporting them all the way through college.  The program, you might imagine, is very costly — hundreds of millions of dollars — and Canada, himself, pulls in about $400,000 a year.
During the question and answer section of the talk, Canada called on musician and TFA board member John