A parlor game: Who will be the next generations of influential New Yorkers? Candidates include novelists, educators, bartenders, infectious-disease specialists, and three-term mayors. By Julie Besonen ...

On October 30, AEI hosted Geoffrey Canada, the president of Harlem Children’s Zone and founder of the William Julius Wilson Institute, for a discussion with AEI’s Frederick M. Hess on expanding ...

The Harlem Children's Zone, writes New York Times reporter Paul Tough, is "the first and so far the only organization in the country that pulls together ... integrated social and educational services ...

We will find the money to do this because we can’t afford not to. Geoffrey Canada strides to the lectern in the New York Sheraton’s Grand Metropolitan Ballroom amid the clatter and clink of laden ...

FAIRFIELD — Fairfield University held its 73rd graduate commencement ceremony Saturday. Geoffrey Canada, president of the Harlem Children's Zone — an education and poverty-fighting organization in New ...

New York Times journalist Tough profiles educational visionary Geoffrey Canada, whose Harlem Children's Zone—currently serving more than 7,000 children and encompassing 97 city blocks—represents an ...

A tireless community activist, Geoffrey Canada has been described as “the brother who never left the ‘hood because he keeps looking into the faces of the children and seeing himself there.” Canada ...

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Four years ago, the first Geoffrey Canada Scholars arrived at Bowdoin. That same year, THRIVE was formed, bringing these scholars under the same umbrella with four other mentoring and scholarship ...

Visitors to my public charter school often ask how the students feel about the signs on the walls that say: "Failure is not an option." They are surprised to hear... Limping into the Race: N.Y. sent ...