Geoffrey Canada's innovative strategies for saving thousands of children in the Harlem Children's Zone have garnered praise from Obama, who plans to replicate Canada's successes around the country.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.17.2009 | Media
When Metro US asked me to be guest editor of their daily newspapers in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, it immediately reawakened my early love affair with print, going back to my school years in Athens when my father was a newspaper editor and paper after paper that he ran kept going out of business -- but that's another story. It was great fun working with the Metro staff picking which stories to feature. Here are links to some of the stories we selected, and my take on them. READ MORE What If Jon Stewart, Instead of John King, Interviewed Dick Cheney Someone needs to kidnap King and take him to a journalism deprogramming center -- preferably one run by Jon Stewart and his team. READ MORE
Paul Tough | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
The most innovative policy in Obama's platform is his pledge to replicate the Harlem Children's Zone in 20 cities across the country. What we spend early on in a child's life, we more than get back later.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics