Posts Tagged ‘Tennessee’

Chattanooga TV report

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Chattanooga’s CBS affiliate, WDEF, covered the Ochs Center’s public policy forum on early education. The video is here.

Chattanooga Times Free Press report

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports on yesterday’s public policy forum on early education:

Harlem, N.Y., and Chattanooga are very different cities thousands of miles apart, but community members learned on Saturday there are striking similarities.

The Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s University Center held a public policy forum regarding children’s education in Hamilton County. The event’s featured guest speaker was journalist Paul Tough, author of “Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America.”

Forum in Chattanooga

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

On June 20, I’ll be talking about Whatever It Takes and the Harlem Children’s Zone at a forum in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on preparing children for early school success. Details here.