Don't Lose Sight of the Big Picture: Harlem Children's Zone Research, Promise Neighborhoods, and the Broader Education Debate
Kudos to Russ Whitehurst and Michelle Croft for taking seriously some of Geoffrey Canada's valid complaints about their study on Harlem Children's Zone's effectiveness compared to other NYC charters, and for issuing a new analysis that includes data on HCZ's second Promise Academy Charter School, as well as updated demographic data. The new analysis, by the way, yields findings quite similar to the first one. Not quite so sure about their assertion that this finding is an argument against the Obama administration's proposed Promise Neighborhoods program, which would provide funding to communities to replicate HCZ-like initiatives. It's not that I ...
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