March 2010
Founded by a committed advocate for low-income children, nurtured by the politically powerful and Wall Street titans, and lauded by media around the world, the Harlem Children's Zone has raised a nation's hopes. The Obama administration wants to use it as the model for a nationwide antipoverty plan. But what is really known about the success of the Zone? Is there enough evidence to base a larger initiative around it? Are other cities capable of developing their own versions of the Harlem Miracle? In the new City Limits, read an in-depth evaluation of the program that's inspiring the federal government's most innovative poverty-fighting initiative in decades.
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Harlem Children's Zone vs. Upper Manhattan Schools
On standardized tests, the Harlem Children's Zone's Promise Academy I, fares well compared to most s
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Slideshows
The Man Behind A New Movement
Geoffrey Canada is working off instinct. Is that enough for communities across the country to follow
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Harlem Children's Zone: Effects on the Street
The March 2010 Issue of City Limits Magazine investigates whether the Harlem Children's Zone really
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Harlem Children's Zone: Can Obama Replicate It?
The March issue of City Limits magazine investigates whether the Harlem Children's Zone really deliv
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Web Extras
City Limits' Education Coverage Wins Prize
The National Education Writers Association honored our examination of President Obama's plan to mode
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'There Is No Science': Canada's Philosophy
A Q&A with Harlem Children's Zone founder and CEO Geoffrey Canada.
Lesson Plans: A Teacher Speaks
What's it like teaching inside the school that’s become a national model for community improvement?
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Kids Who Can't Get Enough of School
One low-income HCZ parent describes how the program has changed her family.
Some Harlem Residents Balk At Charter School Plan
The Harlem Children's Zone wants to launch a school at a public housing development. But some tenant
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Harlem Program Scrutinized, Obama Initiative Cut
Congress is contemplating a major reduction to President Obama's flagship anti-poverty program, as i
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Flatbush Designs a Fight Against Poverty
A federal Promise Neighborhoods grant in hand, one Brooklyn organization is asking residents how bes
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City Limits Magazine is devoted to the in-depth investigation of pressing civic issues in New York City. Driven by a mission to inform public discourse, the Magazine provides the factual reporting, human faces, data, history and breadth of knowledge necessary to understanding the nuances, complexities and hard truths of the city, its politics and its people.
