Why do we EVER do it? Why are schools continuously taking the same approach in educating students and still failing? How does school leadership truly solve the problem of failing students and schools. In his TED Talk, Geoffrey Canada reviews some of the fallacies occurring in today’s education system and their ramifications on student learning and growth.
“I do it because you do it for your kids.” ~ Geoffrey Canada. “Why shouldn’t poor kids have the same opportunity?”
Geoffrey Canada an American educator, social activist and author. Since 1990, Canada has been president of the Harlem Children’s Zone in Harlem, New York, an organization that states its goal is to increase high school and college graduation rates among students in Harlem, New York
An Urban Education 