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Maicon De _how_o_ercy — Definietely one of Lewis's lesser works written to keep the metaphorical pot aboil. All the usual Lewisian style and characters in this portrait of a hotelier, but none of the satire. For fans only.

Liu Liu liuling — This is theMountains Beyond Mountains of ed reform. It's a compelling look at Geoffrey Canada and the Harlem Children's Zone, told by a journalist who has clearly lived and breathed his subject for many months. There are two complementary strategies employed by the HCZ to help all the kids in their 97-block escape the cycle of poverty. The Conveyor Belt What Canada, along with many researchers, has found is that early interventions like Head Start significantly improve the academic achievement of kids growing up in low-income areas. Immersion in a language-rich program early on can erase the deficit these kids often start with in Kindergarten (which snowballs and has them reading 2-3 grade levels behind their middle class peers later on). What has also become apparent is that the positive effects of these interventions wear off over time if the child returns to sub-par schools. In Canada-speak ("Canadian"?) these early programs, no matter how effective, are not enough in/of themselves to get kids "into orbit." The idea of the conveyor belt is to follow early interventions, like HCZ's Baby College and Harlem Gems pre-K with a high-achieving charter school education as well as an array of after-school and community programming. The results so far are promising. Late/Emergency Intervention This is the kind of work many TFA'ers are used to-- work your butt off to make sure your middle school kids erase as much of the achievement gap as they can. This is arduous, and compared to the above strategy, inefficient. Canada's argument, however, is that the effort spent on the older kids who have not experienced the "Conveyor Belt" is critical to the kind of wholesale transformation he wants to see in Harlem. The older kids are the ones the younger guys will either see hanging out on the street corner or going to college. If kids grow up exposed to successful people in their community, the argument follows, then success will become a more tangible option. Rather than helping a handful of kids "beat the odds," Geoffrey Canada is interested in changing the odds the kids face. Canada is a true believer and certainly a spike in the influencing and motivating category. Watching him speak you have no choice but to be inspired. HCZ is a hopeful endeavor that has a lot of eyes on it right now. I'm struck by how massive this undertaking is-- though no doubt a problem as serious as the achievement gap requires big, bold action. It's also the first time these particular approaches have been combined, and can therefore be viewed as a potential prototype for other areas. Prototypes invariably require more resources than resulting iterations-- here's to hoping this one flies.