In Sunday’s Christian Science Monitor, an article about Geoffrey Canada and his work, based on my radio story on Baby College, on This American Life.
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Christian Science Monitor article
Monday, September 28th, 2009Learning Matters blog
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009On his Learning Matters blog, PBS education reporter John Merrow writes about the recent re-airing of my Baby College piece on This American Life:
The Harlem Children’s Zone is the brain-baby of Geoffrey Canada, and the subject of journalist Paul Tough’s in-depth reportage in a recent book, Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America. The basic idea behind Canada’s program is to combat urban poverty through intensive work with children, particularly during early childhood. …
Last week, This American Life re-aired a piece on HCZ, produced by Tough before the release of his book. If you’re looking to get inspired by Canada and his vision, the radio piece is a great introduction to the theory behind the Zone. Tough hones in on the phase of HCZ’s program called Baby College, where new and expecting parents are trained to think differently about child-rearing.
This American Life
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009The half-hour-long report that I did on This American Life about Baby College and the Harlem Children’s Zone is airing again this weekend.
The report was recently named a runner-up for the 2009 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism in the radio category. According to the citation,
Entrenched poverty is a complicated, nuanced issue, and some reporting on it tends to be one-dimensional. Not this story. This is an excellent report of one man’s impact on the children involved with the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York. The reporter expertly mixes science and storytelling without avoiding thorny issues. It’s no wonder that many who heard or learned of the report wanted to know how they might replicate the program.
Los Angeles Radio
Monday, July 20th, 2009On Saturday, I was interviewed on the John and Ken Show on KFI Radio in Los Angeles about “Whatever It Takes” and the Harlem Children’s Zone. Click here for audio. Added bonus: From about 2:30 to about 2:50 on this audio file, you can hear nine-day-old E.M. Tough crying in the background of the phone interview. Sorry about that, John and Ken.
Dispatches audio
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Audio of my interview with the CBC Radio program “Dispatches” is now posted on the show’s website. Right-click here to download the podcast version (my interview starts at about 30 minutes in, after the story on the cheese bank), or click here and scroll down to listen to the interview alone. The “Dispatches” site summarizes the interview, conducted by host Rick MacInnes-Rae:
What’s the story on this Harlem Children’s Zone that’s captured the imagination of a president?
After all, for the longest time, the corner of 125th and Madison in Harlem was the intersection of poverty and failure.
But these days, for 97 blocks around, you’re in The Zone, a great big social experiment in education and hope.
More than 7,000 kids and their parents are being taught that just because they’re broke or living in public housing, it doesn’t mean they can’t succeed.
The program isn’t just trying to solve problems in education. It’s trying to bust poverty in America, according to journalist Paul Tough.
He’s the author of the new book Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest To Change Harlem And America.
CBC Radio
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Attention Canadians: Next Monday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m., I’ll be on “Dispatches,” on CBC Radio One, talking with the host, Rick MacInnes-Rae, about Whatever It Takes and the Harlem Children’s Zone. A few days after that, audio should be posted here.
Wine Country radio
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Earlier this week, I did an interview with Jeff Schechtman on KVON radio in Napa, California. Audio is now online. Here’s Jeff’s blog post about our talk:
The President said last night that when kids, especially inner city kids, drop out of school they are not only letting themselves down, but they are letting down their country. A noble thought, but what does it take to get these often poor children to to compete with their middle-class peers? Geoffrey Canada, asked himself that question, and proceeded to found the Harlem Children’s Zone, where he is testing ideas about education, poverty and parenting and trying to turn around the lives of Harlem’s children.
Santa Fe radio
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Earlier this week, I spent a half-hour on the air with Diego Mulligan, host of the “Journey Home” program on Santa Fe Public Radio, talking about Whatever It Takes and the Harlem Children’s Zone.
Audio of our interview is here.
Dallas radio
Monday, February 23rd, 2009This afternoon I was interviewed for an hour on “Think,” with Krys Byrd, on KERA radio in Dallas.
Audio is here, but it will only be available for the next five days, they tell me.
WAMU audio
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009is now up. My interview starts at about 30:00.