Wednesday, September 22, 2010
☞ SEE: Waiting For Superman
There's a lot of education news going on this week in preparation for the much awaited national release of Waiting for Superman which is directed by Davis Guggenheim. Most might remember that Guggenheim basically started a world movement with his last movie An Inconvenient Truth and the hope is to bring that awareness to the public education crises in America. The film features Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem's Children Zone who is once more a central figure on the topic of education reform and the national government has noticed. Today's Wall Street Journal reports on the 21 communities nationwide that will receive $500,000 grant to create the HCZ model within their own public schools. Locally, the Abyssinian Development Corporation in Central Harlem was amongst the winners and will use the funds to try and duplicate the "promise neighborhood." Read more in the Wall Street Jounal: LINK.
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Great to see the urgency in improving education, schools are important, but more important are parents, children learn from and mimic their parents. The parents have to value education, and infuse their children in the belief that education is crucial for their future. Solving the schools will not work if the parents are sending the wrong message. If you are in doubt of the value adults put on improving education, just look at the recent dysfunctional values over a charter school versus a parking lot in the Harlem projects, enough said.
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