The Success of the Harlem Children’s Zone

Education
On Sunday night’s 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper picked up an Ed Bradley story from 2006 to assess how well Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone experiment is going. The piece was fist-pumpingly feel-good. Cooper was glowing, a Harvard education expert who has studied HCZ was glowing, and so was I as I watched. Naturally, it took [...]

Harlem’s Geoffrey Canada on CNN

Education
Geoffrey Canada explains what he’s trying to achieve with his educational project in Harlem, New York.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper reports, Sunday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Touro’s New Master Program to Focus on Health Disparities

Education
Touro College’s School of Health Sciences will offer a new master of public health (MPH) program in the fall of 2010 at its main campus in Manhattan.  The program will focus on community health, with particular attention to health disparities.  Graduates will be able to develop, implement, and assess public health interventions and social policies [...]

Salters Scene: Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s Fashion Night

 
 

 

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund held its 4th Annual Front Row fashion show October 25th at the Roseland Ballroom.  This year The View’s Sherri Shepherd held down  the hosting  duties.  Sherri lit up the room as soon as she stepped on the red carpet.  Also, in the building participating in the award ceremony was Thurgood [...]

A Moo-Moo Here, Better Test Scores There

On the bus ride to the farm, the children sang rounds of “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” and a boy yelled, “I love pumpkin pie!”
But it soon became clear that this was a field “study”— as the teachers called it — not a field “trip,” and the 75 Harlem kindergartners were going not only for [...]

Making Education Part of the Church Agenda

Empathy is his Superpower

Education

Geoffrey Canada still remembers the saddest day in his first nine years on earth. Back then, Mr. Canada clung to superheroes – and to Superman especially. He liked the guy, but he especially liked the idea he symbolized: immediate and dramatic salvation. In his earliest days, Superman was a social-justice hero, saving a man from [...]

City College’s boost in Research Funding

Education
The City College of New York is making strides in its efforts to become a research university.
Spurred by new programs related to cancer and nanoscience, funding for research at the university increased 21.5% to $55.2 million for the 2008-09 year fiscal year.

Harlem Children’s Zone Moms

Education
A five-minute video of moms talking about the challenges of raising children in Harlem …

… and the difference HCZ is making in their lives.

Student Reporter Damon Weaver Interviews the President

Education
Student Reporter Damon Weaver was invited to come to…

…the White House to talk about education with President Obama

NY Senate Renews Mayor’s School Power

Education

The State Senate on Thursday extended Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s control over New York City schools for six more years, handing the mayor a major victory as he attempts to make education reform a centerpiece of his re-election campaign and legacy.

Charter Schools to admit 4-year-olds

Education

Charter schools will admit 4-year-olds to kindergarten for the first time ever this fall, the Daily News has learned.
The new program at Harlem Success Academy II is part of a fight to bring younger students into charter schools.

School Moving Daze

Education

It’s almost September — do you know where your child’s school is?
Education officials are playing a big game of musical schools this summer — moving 91 schools into buildings that didn’t house them last year.
While the bulk involves new schools or replacements for others being phased out, many of the other relocations involve schools [...]

Comptroller Questions Harlem’s Graduation Rates

Eudcation
Mayor Bloomberg and his leading Democratic opponent are trading jabs over Bloomberg’s education record. WNYC’s Beth Fertig has more.
REPORTER: A new audit by City Comptroller William Thompson’s office questions whether graduates are really completing all their requirements. Thompson accused the Bloomberg administration of cooking the books.
THOMPSON: The New York City Department of Education has become [...]

Harlem Charter School Blocks Public School?

Education
A Harlem Success Academy charter school has blocked a second local public school from expanding as planned, outraged parents charged on Friday.
Mosaic Preparatory Academy – an elementary school that opened just last fall to replace a failing school – was told to get rid of its sixth grade next term and scrap plans to add [...]

Mayor, Gov Push Renewal Of Mayoral School Governance

Education
Demonstrators opposed to mayoral control of city schools rallied in Harlem yesterday, just a few feet from supporters of the law. The dueling protests took place outside a school, where the mayor, the governor, and other officials urged the State Senate to get its act together and renew mayoral control before it expires tomorrow.
But one [...]

Charter Schools: Are They Saving Harlem’s Schools?

Education
New York City is well on track toward Mayor Bloomberg’s goal of having 100 charter schools by the fall. Charters are publicly funded but privately managed. Some parents believe they provide competition that can force the rest of the school system to improve. But others believe they’re draining resources. WNYC’s Beth Fertig took a close [...]

NYC Teachers Paid To Do Nothing?

Education
Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that’s what they want to do.
Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire [...]

Harlem Middle School Lands Former President Bill Clinton

Hey, if you want something in life, you gotta ask.
That was message No. 1 Monday from Bill Clinton to graduates of The Mott Hall School, a public middle school in Harlem that waged a successful, five-year campaign to get the ex-president to speak at their graduation ceremonies.
“I can almost give a one-sentence commencement address – [...]

Salters Scene: Career Day in Harlem

On Sunday May 31, 2009, The Harlem Education Guild held its First Annual Career Fair at the Frederick Douglass Academy.  Students from the school and the community were introduced to professionals from various backgrounds. 
 
Dr. Gregory Hodge, Principal of Frederick Douglass Academy, opened up the morning long program by welcoming the students and professionals.  The microphone [...]

Harlem Dowling Students Honored As Super Heroes

Education

After School Student Participants Creative Work Wins Covenant Cover of Citywide Comic Book
New York City once again paid tribute to its youngest super heroes during an award reception at Barnes & Noble.  The occasion was to honor and acknowledge young aspiring artists and writers who were brave enough to share their [...]

NIDA Director Meets With Harlem High School Students

Education
NIDA Director, Nora Volkow meets with 100 students in Harlem, at the High School for Math Science and Engineering at City College in New York City for an open discussion. http://teens.drugabuse.gov/drnida http://www.drugabuse.gov/chat//drug_a…
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The Business Of Education: No Teachers At The Top

Education
The New York City public school system has always been led by teachers. Until the chancellorship of Joel I. Klein
When Mayor Michael Bloomberg was elected, he vowed to improve the city’s schools, initiating far-reaching overhauls that began with mayoral control: The demolition of the independent and often mayor-opposing Board of Education, the creation of a [...]

Harlem Children’s Zones Model Across America

Education
Harlem Children’s Zone & PolicyLilnk Team Up
At Congressional Black Caucus Educational Briefing in DC
On Thursday, May 21, Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder & CEO of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity, joined distinguished members from the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ); leading educational and policy experts; and lawmakers in Washington, DC [...]

Steele Named Columbia Provost

Education
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger announced his appointment of Claude M. Steele as the university’s 21st provost, effective September 1.
Steele comes to Columbia from Stanford University, where he has served as a professor of psychology since 1991, leading the department as chair from 1997 to 2000. He is currently the Lucie Stern Professor in [...]

Murdoch Donates $5M To Harlem Charter School

Education
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has donated $5.5 million to a Harlem charter school.
The chairman of News Corp. announced the donation to the Harlem Village Academy Thursday at a benefit concert at the Apollo Theater.
School officials say the donation will be used to help secure a high school building for Harlem Village.
The academy teaches students in [...]

Don’t Let Unions Steal Our Schools

Education
By Michelle McClary forthe NYPost.com
I’m a lifelong Harlem resident, a reverend and a mother of six. When I was growing up in Harlem in the 1970s, the zone schools were terrible. Without choices, and with limited money, my parents scraped together the funds to send me to parochial school. Even though they worked hard and [...]

Thelma Berlack Boozer Scholarship

Education
The deadline is quickly approaching for the Thelma Berlack Boozer Scholarship for Academic Excellence sponsored by the Tau Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. This scholarship is awarded to individuals with a demonstrated financial need who have excelled academically and provided leadership in their community.

Harlem Families Demand Charters?

Education
About 5,000 Harlem parents and kids rallied in support of charter schools last night drawing the support of local rapper Little Mama, as well as Mayor Bloomberg.
The families at the Harlem Armory demanded politicians back their charters and pledge to help open new ones as well.
The massive turnout shows the popularity of charter schools skyrocketing [...]

Bloomberg Says Obama Is Right?

Education
Mayor Bloomberg visited one of Harlem’s most successful charter schools this morning and told students they were living proof that President Obama was right to challenge states and schools districts to improve standards and promote innovation through more charter schools.
“Most of what the president said you already do,” the mayor said at the Harlem Village [...]