Commentary, perspectives, and research.
The Department of Education just launched its new Data.ed.gov, “a one-stop shop for education data and allow practitioners, researchers, and the public to access data that can inform their work in classrooms and communities... to make the grant-making process more transparent to | Read more >
This fourth question, specifically on charter schools in the application process,will be my last post for the week on education. Again, please feel free to comment or ask additional clarifying questions using the comment function below. You can also continue to send your questions | Read more >
This week, Paul Tough, author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America – a book that thoughtfully researches and describes Geoffrey Canada and the Harlem Children’s Zone model - commented about the Promise Neighborhoods grant program on his book | Read more >
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation announced this week three new grants to expand access to high-quality early care and education for all infants, toddlers and preschoolers in Washington D.C. and to support models of early education for communities across the country. This is very | Read more >
As promised, I am posting more of your questions on the involvement of schools in the application processand my answers – please feel free to comment or ask additional clarifying questions using the comment function below. You can also continue to send your questions to Read more >
During the Promise Neighborhoods Institute webinar on June 3rd, participants asked me and the other speakers a number of great questions on the involvement of schools in the application process. I am contributing to the PNI blog to help to answer those questions.
Each day I will | Read more >
Check out this cool map we put together showing (and listing) all the 941 communities that have submitted the “intent to apply” paperwork for the federal Promise Neighborhoods Program. The breadth and depth is extraordinary.
Communities from every state, 48 tribal areas, and 170 | Read more >
Boston public radio station, WBUR, explores Boston-based participants’ experiences at the Harlem Children’s Zone Practitioners Institute – and their thoughts on what it would take to create a similar neighborhood in Boston. A great listen!
By Geoffrey Canada, President & CEO, Harlem Children’s Zone
In 30 years of working with poor children, I have never given up hope for my kids, despite the huge odds stacked up against them. But today I am more confident than ever that we as a nation are on the verge of a | Read more >
The wonderful folks over at United Neighborhood Centers of America have an excellent interview with the DOE’s Jim Shelton, the man heading up the Promise Neighborhoods program. Read the full interview here. And here’s an excerpt:
Building Neighborhoods: Obviously you’re breaking | Read more >
Check out our new How-To guide for the application process: How to Apply: The Promise Neighborhoods Grant-writing Guide.
This guide is designed to help applicant organizations and neighborhood coalitions navigate through the guidelines and application for the 2010 Promise | Read more >
Check out this short video by the Children’s Defense Fund on the “Changing the Odds” conference put on by the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) and PolicyLink last November.
The conference highlighted the HCZ model and Promise Neighborhoods grant program. It features snippets of | Read more >
What makes a successful, safe, and healthy school? The Department of Education says the Promise Neighborhoods program and the Harlem Children’s Zone model are a big part of the answer (pdf). Promise Neighborhoods, the DOE report says, offer crucial community-wide models for dealing | Read more >
Now this is exciting.
The Promise Neighborhoods movement is growing stronger and louder every day. It’s as though the PolicyLink motto of “Lifting Up What Works” has come to life! Community leaders across the country are embracing the Harlem Children’s Zone model and using those | Read more >