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About the Harlem Children’s Zone
- Harlem Children’s Zone’s Website
- Information & Resources from the first Harlem Children’s Zone & PolicyLink national conference, “Changing the Odds: Learning from the Harlem Children’s Zone Model,” on November 9-10, 2009.
Harlem Children’s Zone Articles
- “Study of Harlem Children’s Zone Finds Gaps Closing,” by Erik W. Robelen. Novemeber 12, 2009.
- “Harlem Program Singled Out as Model”, by Robin Shulman, Washington Post. August 2, 2009.
- Transcript of Speech Given at Harlem Children’s Zone “Changing the Odds” Conference by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
- Harlem Children’s Zone Executive Summary 2008
- Harlem Children’s Zone Business Plan (provided by The Bridgespan Group)
- Harlem Children’s Zone: Driving Performance with Measurement and Evaluation (Harvard Business School Case Study)
- Whatever it Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America by Paul Tough.
- Recommendations for a National Children’s Anti-Poverty Program Inspired by the Harlem Children’s Zone (authored by Harlem Children’s Zone & PolicyLink)
- “Harlem Program Singled Out as Model”, by Robin Shulman, Washington Post. August 2, 2009.
- “The Harlem Miracle,” by Op-Ed Columnist David Brooks, published by New York Times. May 7, 2009.
Promise Neighborhoods Initiative
- “Building Neighborhoods” covers federal urban policy, with a focus on President Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods initiative and similar state and local place-based efforts. Building Neighborhoods is a project of United Neighborhood Centers of America (UNCA), a voluntary, nonprofit, national organization with neighborhood-based member agencies throughout the United States.
Other Publications
- More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City by William Julius Wilson. New York Times book review by Richard Thompson Ford (Link downloads PDF).
- Realizing President Obama’s Promise to Scale Up What Works to Fight Urban Poverty by Lisbeth Schorr, Center for the Study of Social Policy (Link downloads PDF).