Famed educator Geoffrey Canada spoke at the University of Pennsylvania on Monday about the importance of education and the battle to make America a mo...
Gail Robinson | Posted 04.13.2012
Increasingly privatized education -- with charters, consultants and competition -- offers more opportunities for investment and profit-making. Its proponents have a special and vested interest in the policies they promote.
Posted 04.02.2012
Renowned Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has helped a number of celebrities discover integral aspects of their family origins, now he's taking...
Lee Kolbert | Posted 11.30.2011
How do we account for population, demographics, family support, poverty... oh yeah. We can fire the bad teachers and hire really good ones. A really good teacher can overcome all of those things.
Rocco Staino | Posted 11.28.2011
Diane Ravitch, educational historian and professor of education at New York University, and Geoffrey Canada, founder and CEO of the Harlem Children's ...
Keli Goff | Posted 08.21.2011
Here in the U.S. successful parenting remains the most powerful weapon we have to combat many of society's larger problems, and many assume that it's a skill that comes naturally. But just like what you learn in college, it's doesn't.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.24.2011
What did "Waiting For 'Superman'" get wrong? A grassroots group of parents and teachers pokes big holes in last year's blockbuster documentary abo...
Posted 06.12.2011
NEW YORK (Grant McCool) - Hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam hopes a "Superman" will be able to help him win over the jury at his insider trading t...
Posted 05.25.2011
Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children's Zone CEO, sat down with Jimmy Fallon Tuesday night to talk about how his efforts to give back to Harlem child-by-ch...
John Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011
Talking about race should be made easier by acknowledging the obvious fact that structural inequities are far more damaging than culture in perpetuating generational poverty.
Justin Snider | Posted 05.25.2011
They command six-figure salaries. No, we're not talking rock stars, pro athletes or even pro coaches. We're talking school superintendents.
Matt Farmer | Posted 05.25.2011
Salazar and Locke should definitely take a page from the playbook of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. As the guy who once ran Chicago's schools, Duncan knows we're a nation of dummies.
Tom Matlack | Posted 05.25.2011
For our inaugural Good Men of the Year list, we're not celebrating memorable personalities or newly-minted pop culture icons. This was a year of unprecedented challenges, and it cried out for good men.
Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: Cathie Black says she was Mayor Bloomberg's first pick for schools chancellor. "What he said to me is, 'You're the first person I've offered ...
The Huffington Post | Dominique Fenton | Posted 05.25.2011
America is facing an educational crisis. As the president and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, no one knows that better than Geoffrey Canada. Geoffr...
Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011
Let's face it, when you count your blessings this year the first thing that springs to mind is not going to be the New York state legislature. Still, there's lots in New York to give thanks for.
Jacqueline Edelberg | Posted 05.25.2011
If we're going to see school reform, real school reform, we're going to need to start asking tough questions and demanding serious answers. Kudos to Mr. Canada for leading the charge.
Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011
The failures in American education are due to fundamental aspects of American society -- our religiosity, spirituality, and irrationality, and our failure to integrate African-Americans into the mainstream.
Trey Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011
If Ms. Black were a Steve Jobs, a visionary manager and innovator, then of course New Yorkers would be thrilled that a newcomer to education was arriving. Instead she is an executive from a dying industry -- publishing.
Diane Bryant | Posted 05.25.2011
As pundits, influencers and personalities debate, shouldn't we hear more from the minds to be molded? How do our students feel about their ability to compete, our ability to compete and the role of the education system?
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Geoffrey Canada gave a moving speech at The Huffington Post's 2010 Game Changers celebration at Skylight Studios in Soho on Thursday night. Canada, wh...
John Milewski | Posted 05.25.2011
Even though I love the world of comics, I'm always suspicious when someone suggests that the solution to long-term systemic problems involves superhuman efforts.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
The Huffington Post celebrated its 2010 Game Changers Thursday evening at Skylight Studios in SoHo. Sean Penn, who was named a 2010 Game Changer, was ...
Bernard Starr | Posted 05.25.2011
Seniors embody a vast reservoir of skills, talent and wisdom that we gratuitously salute but do not harness for productive roles. How can seniors save American education and insure a 21st century-ready workforce?
Brian Jones | Posted 05.25.2011
Thousands in Harlem are about to lose their green space to the construction of yet another charter school.
Posted 05.15.2012