The
!
Harlem
!
Children’s
!
Zone
!
response
!
to
!
the
!
Brookings
!
Institute’s
!
report:
!
“The
!
Harlem
!
Children’s
!
Zone,
!
Promise
!
Neighborhoods,
!
and
!
the
!
Broader,
!
Bolder
!
Approach
!
to
!
Education”
!
!
By
!
Geoffrey
!
Canada,
!
President
!
and
!
CEO,
!
Harlem
!
Children’s
!
Zone
!
With
!
all
!
due
!
respect
!
to
!
the
!
Brookings
!
Institute,
!
we
!
believe
!
that
!
the
!
report
!
by
!
Grover
!
Whitehurst
!
and
!
Michelle
!
Croft
!
is
!
a
!
wrong
"
headed
!
take
!
on
!
the
!
work
!
of
!
the
!
Harlem
!
Children’s
!
Zone,
!
one
!
which
!
is
!
further
!
compromised
!
by
!
several
!
statistical
!
misrepresentations
!
of
!
our
!
Promise
!
Academy
!
charter
!
school’s
!
test
!
results.
!!!
In
!
2004,
!
the
!
Harlem
!
Children’s
!
Zone
!
opened
!
the
!
Promise
!
Academy
!
charter
!
school
!
with
!
the
!
intention
!
of
!
closing
!
the
!
black
"
white
!
achievement
!
gap.
!!
In
!
just
!
a
!
few
!
short
!
years
!
we
!
have
!
accomplished
!
that.
!!
With
!
the
!
American
!
education
!
landscape
!
littered
!
with
!
schools
!
in
!
poor
!
communities
!
that
!
have
!
failed
!
to
!
accomplish
!
this
!
important
!
task
!
for
!
decades,
!
we
!
feel
!
that
!
the
!
Whitehurst
!
and
!
Croft
!
report
!
trivializes
!
what
!
we
!
have
!
done
!
in
!
a
!
relatively
!
short
!
time.
!!
This
!
is
!
certainly
!
not
!
a
!
trivial
!
issue
!
to
!
poor
!
children,
!
and
!
particularly
!
to
!
poor
!
children
!
of
!
color,
!
because
!
getting
!
a
!
good
!
education
!
is
!
their
!
only
!
reliable
!
way
!
out
!
of
!
poverty.
!!!
The
!
report
!
equates
!
the
!
Harlem
!
Children’s
!
Zone
!
with
!
our
!
Promise
!
Academy
!
public
!
charter
!
school
!
as
!
if
!
they
!
were
!
one
!
and
!
the
!
same.
!!
This
!
is
!
inaccurate
!
and
!
misleading.
!!
Anyone
!
who
!
has
!
even
!
a
!
basic
!
understanding
!
of
!
our
!
work
!
would
!
realize
!
that
!
the
!
Harlem
!
Children’s
!
Zone
!
is
!
a
!
comprehensive
!
place
"
based
!
strategy
!
that
!
has
!
a
!
goal
!
of
!
working
!
with
!
all
!
children
!
that
!
reside
!
in
!
our
!
Zone,
!
whether
!
they
!
go
!
to
!
our
!
public
!
charter
!
schools
!
or
!
traditional
!
public
!
schools.
!!
Last
!
year
!
we
!
worked
!
with
!
over
!
8,000
!
children
!
in
!
the
!
Children’s
!
Zone.
!!
The
!
Whitehurst
!
and
!
Croft
!
report
!
looked
!
at
!
only
!
one
!
school
!"!
and
!
only
!
the
!
500
"
plus
!
students
!
who
!
took
!
the
!
2007
"
2009
!
statewide
!
tests
!"!
to
!
make
!
its
!
conclusions
!
about
!
the
!
entire
!
Harlem
!
Children’s
!
Zone.
!!!
The
!
Harlem
!
Children’s
!
Zone
!
has
!
one
!
basic
!
goal:
!
to
!
get
!
our
!
children
!
into
!
and
!
through
!
college.
!!
We
!
have
!
the
!
same
!
standards
!
for
!
children
!
who
!
go
!
to
!
traditional
!
public
!
schools
!
as
!
we
!
do
!
for
!
those
!
who
!
go
!
to
!
the
!
Promise
!
Academy
!
charter
!
schools.
!!
In
!
fact,
!
this
!
fall
!
we
!
are
!
thrilled
!
to
!
have
!
more
!
than
!
700
!
of
!
our
!
students
!
in
!
college
!
who
!
went
!
to
!
traditional
!
public
!
high
!
schools
!
and
!
participated
!
in
!
HCZ
!
afterschool
!
programs.
!
We
!
believe
!
that
!
even
!
the
!
best
!
schools
!
in
!
impoverished
!
neighborhoods
!
would
!
be
!
significantly
!
improved
!
if
!
there
!
were
!
wraparound
!
support
!
services
!
for
!
their
!
students,
!
families
!
and
!
community.
!!
If
!
your
!
mission
!
is
!
about
!
all
!
of
!
the
!
students
!
in
!
a
!
community,
!
then
!
dealing
!
with
!
family
!
crises,
!
gangs,
!
drugs,
!
violence,
!
and
!
health
!
all
!
become
!
part
!
of
!
your
!
strategy
!
to
!
support
!
development
!
of
!
the
!
whole
!
child,
!
not
!
just
!
how
!
they
!
perform
!
on
!
standardized
!
tests.
!!
When
!
a
!
community
!
becomes
!
too
!
violent
!
or
!
the
!
schools
!
too
!
lousy,
!
families
!
–
!
if
!
they
!
have
!
the
!
means
!
–
!
will
!
move
!
out.
!!
Poor
!
families
!
don’t
!
have
!
that
!
option;
!
that
!
is
!
why
!
you
!
need
!
a
!
comprehensive
!
strategy.
!!!
Even
!
while
!
misunderstanding
!
the
!
basic
!
premise
!
of
!
the
!
Harlem
!
Children’s
!
Zone,
!
the
!
Whitehurst
!
and
!
Croft
!
analysis
!
has
!
several
!
weaknesses.
!
First,
!
it
!
looks
!
at
!
only
!
one
!
of
!
our
!
charter
!
schools,
!
Promise
!
Academy
!
I.
!!
If
!
Whitehurst
!
and
!
Croft
!
had
!
decided
!
to
!
look
!
instead
!
at
!
our
!
other
!
charter
!
school,
!
Promise
!
Academy
!
II,
!
which
!
started
!
with
!
children
!
in
!
kindergarten
!
and
!
first
!
grade,
!
they
!
would
!
have
!
found
!
that
!
Promise
!
Academy
!
II
!
was
!
not
!
in
!
the
!
middle
!
of
!
Bronx
!
and
!
Manhattan
!
charter
!
schools,
!
but
!
in
!
the
!
top
!
quarter.
!!
The
!
decision
!
to
!
exclude
!
Promise
!
II
!
students,
!
in
!
our
!
opinion,
!
is
!
a
!
fatal
!
flaw
!
in
!
their
!
report.
!
Second,
!
they
!
do
!
not
!
look
!
at
!
progress
!
of
!
the
!
students
!
over
!
time,
!
which
!
we
!
believe
!
is
!
a
!
better
!
measure
!
of
!
the
!
added
!
value
!
of
!
a
!
school.
!
In
!
contrast,
!
the
!
Harvard
!
University
!
study
!
of
!
our
!
work
!
by
!
researchers
!
Will
!
Dobbie
!
and
!
Dr.
!
Roland
!
Fryer
!
looked
!
at
!
progress
!
over
!
time.
!
The
!
analysis
!
of
!
Dobbie
!
and
!
Fryer
!
showed
!
that
!
Promise
!
Academy
!
middle
"
school
!
students
!
entered
!
our
!
school
!
with
!
lower
!
scores
!
on
!
average
!
than
!
all
!
black
!
children
!
in
!
New
!
York
!
City.
!
Despite
!
starting
!
out
!
below
!
the
!
average
!
for
!
black
!
students
!
in
!
New
!
York
!
City,
!
the
!
middle
!
school
!
students
!
closed
!
the
!
achievement
!
gap
!
with
!
white
!
students
!
over
!
their
!
first
!
three
!
years.
!
If
!
you
!
take
!
this
!
approach
!
you
!
reach
!
a
!
totally
!
different
!
conclusion:
!
you
!
see
!
highly
!
significant
!
progress
!
with
!
our
!
middle
!
schools
!
students.
!!!
There
!
are
!
also
!
several
!
misrepresentations
!
in
!
the
!
report
!
that
!
we
!
are
!
obliged
!
to
!
correct.
!
1)
!
The
!
report
!
states
!
that
!
the
!
Promise
!
Academy
!
charter
"
school
!
students
!
who
!
live
!
outside
!
the
!
Zone
!
do
!
not
!
receive
!
the
!
full
!
complement
!
of
!
HCZ
!
services,
!
which
!
is
!
wrong
.
!
The
!
report
!
concludes
!
that
!
since
!
there
!
is
!
no
!
difference
!
between
!
the
!
charter
!
school
!
students
!
who
!
live
!
outside
!
the
!
Zone
!
and
!
those
!
who
!
live
!
inside
!
the
!
Zone,
!
the
!
effects
!
of
!
the
!
services
!
are
!
nil.
!
However,
!
all
!
of
!
our
!
public
!
charter
!
school
!
students,
!
regardless
!
of
!
where
!
they
!
live,
!
have
!
access
!
to
!
all
!
of
!
our
!
services.
!
There
!
is
!
no
!
difference
!
because
!
they
!
are
!
not
!
treated
!
differently.
!
These
!
services
!
include
!
free
!
medical,
!
dental
!
and
!
mental
"
health
!
services;
!
access
!
to
!
social
!
workers
!
and
!
counseling;
!
afterschool
!
tutoring;
!
healthy
!
meals;
!
test
!
prep;
!
college
!
tours;
!
after
"
school,
!
weekend
!
and
!
summer
!
enrichment
!
classes;
!
and
!
recreational
!
opportunities,
!
among
!
others.
!!
2)
!
The
!
authors
!
give
!
equal
!
weight
!
to
!
each
!
grade
!
without
!
looking
!
at
!
the
!
progress
!
each
!
cohort
!
has
!
made
!
over
!
their
!
time
!
with
!
us.
!
In
!
other
!
words,
!
middle
"
school
!
students
!
who
!
improved
!
in
!
the
!
school
!
over
!
three
!
years
!
had
!
those
!
accomplishments
!
minimized
!
by
!
averaging
!
their
!
scores.
!!
3)
!
The
!
authors
!
arbitrarily
!
tossed
!
out
!
the
!
achievements
!
of
!
our
!
Promise
!
Academy
!
II
!
charter
!
school.
!
They
!
state
!
they
!
used
!
Promise
!
Academy
!
I
!
because
!
it
!
was
!
“the
!
longest
!
established
!
HCZ
!
public
!
charter
!
school.”
!
In
!
fact,
!
Promise
!
Academy
!
I
!
has
!
been
!
in
!
operation
!
for
!
only
!
one
!
year
!
more
!
than
!
PAII.
!!
They
!
also
!
said
!
it
!
would
!
be
!
“confusing”
!
to
!
include
!
both
!
schools,
!
though
!
they
!
included
!
three
!
KIPP
!
schools
!
in
!
their
!
findings.
!
The
!
two
!
cohorts
!
of
!
third
!
and
!
fourth
!
grade
!
tests
!
scores
!
at
!
PAII
!
were
!
the
!
best
!
in
!
our
!
organization.
!
Our
!
own
!
calculations
!
of
!
how
!
Promise
!
Academy
!
II
!
would
!
fare
!
under
!
the
!
authors’
!
methodology
!
indicate
!
that
!
the
!
school
!
would
!
be
!
in
!
the
!
top
!
quarter
!
among
!
the
!
charter
!
schools
!
they
!
use
!
as
!
comparisons.
!
Leaving
!
them
!
out
!
and
!
then
!
using
!
only
!
PAI's
!
scores
!
to
!
evaluate
!
the
!
entire
!
Children’s
!
Zone
!
is
!
disingenuous.
!!
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