American Individualism by Margaret Hoover

Author:Margaret Hoover [Hoover, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-71817-4
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2011-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

Geoffrey Canada

If the American equivalent of being knighted is being kissed on national TV by Oprah Winfrey, then Geoffrey Canada is a knight of the education reform roundtable.

Canada, who was born in Harlem, has dedicated his life to closing the education achievement gap in the neighborhoods where he grew up. His warm personality is balanced by a quiet determination. After his graduation from Harvard, Canada wanted to give something back to his community by working to turn around New York’s schools. He quickly discovered that the teachers’ unions would not budge, so he decided to focus on a one-hundred-square-block section of East Harlem that included the poorest neighborhoods in New York City.

In 1990 Canada launched the Harlem Children’s Zone. Canada guarantees each of the eleven thousand children in the zone that if they stay with his program, he and his dedicated staff will support them and that they will get into college. The students attend public schools or charter schools, which are publicly chartered schools run without the oversight of the public school system. While it is true that charter schools spend slightly more per pupil—$16,000 versus $14,500 in a traditional public school—they also come with three assets: a 30 percent longer school year, more teacher involvement, and a guarantee against failure. The students are predominantly African-American and Latino. In Harlem, as a result of the good works of the Harlem Children’s Zone, they have closed the achievement gap.

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