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Renowned educator planning Springfield visit
A celebrated educator will visit Springfield this spring thanks to the efforts of the city schools’ director of the Safe Schools Healthy Students grant program, according to a press release. Geoffrey Canada has agreed to speak this March of April in Springfield at the request of program administrator Brenda Reddrick, according to an e-mail from the Family First Council.
Canada is one of the most renowned education officials in the U.S. for his work in Harlem. He’s the founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone, the subject of New York Times Magazine editor Paul Tough’s latest book “Whatever It Takes.”
The Harlem Children’s Zone is an intensive educational project in central Harlem that focuses on a holistic approach to educating children from typically low-income urban homes. Cananda’s work there spurred the creation of the Promise Academy charter schools.
One of the biggest challenges urban schools face is that low-income kids often come to them unprepared to learn. I’ve seen studies that say kids from low-income families are behind their middle-to-upper class peers by the age of 3.
HCZ’s prekindergarten program has had 100 percent of its students test pre-kindergarten ready for 6 years in a row.
HCZ served more than 10,000 students this year.
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